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SERVICES IN COMMEMORATION 

OF THE 

TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 



First Election of Wardens and Vestrymen 



Parish of Rye, New York, 



HELD IN THE PARISH CHURCH 



THURSDAV, K-EBRUARY 2S, ISQo. 



PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE VESTRY. 



NEW YORK : 
The Evening Post Job Printing House, 156 Fulton Street, 

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AT THE TOWN OF RYE, IN THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER AND STATE OF 

NEW YORK. 

Ven. Archdeacon WILLIAM W. KIRKBY, D.D., Rector. 




ELKOTED IN 1695. 



Mar5ens, 

GEORGE LANE, 
JOHN BRONDIGE. 

l)estrpmen. 

JONATHAN HART, 
JOSEPH HORTON, 
JOSEPH PURDY, 
TIMOTHY KNAPP, 
HACHALIAH BROWN, 
THOMAS MERRITT, 
DELIVERANCE BROWN, 
ISAAC DENHAM. 

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Marbens. 

AUGUSTUS WIGGIN, 
SAMUEL K. SATTERLEE. 

CLARENCE SACKETT, 
THOMAS T. SHERMAN, 
JOSEPH PARK, 
JAMES M. IVES, 
GEORGE R. READ, 
JAMES W. QUINT ARD, 
JUNIUS S. MORGAN, 
EDWARD H. SCHELL. 



THOMAS T. SHERMAN, 

Clerk of the Vestry. 



prefatory 1Rote« 

The Vestry of Christ's Church at the Town of 
Rye in the County of Westchester and State of 
New York having resolved that the two hundredth anni- 
versary of the first election on February 28, 1695, of 
wardens and vestrymen of the Parish, should be commem- 
orated in some appropriate manner, a committee was 
appointed to whom the details of the celebration were 
entrusted. This Committee consisted of the Rector, Ven. 
Archdeacon William W. Kirkby, D.D., Mr. Augustus 
Wiggin, warden, and Messrs. James M. Ives and Thomas 
T. Sherman, vestrymen. Mr. Ives died on January 3, 1895, 
and Mr. Junius S. Morgan, a vestryman, was appointed in 
his place. 

The order of exercises hereinafter mentioned was de- 
cided upon and carried out on the anniversary day, Thurs- 
day, February 28, 1895. 

Much interest was manifested in the event, and the 
services were largely attended, notwithstanding the incle- 
ment season of the year. 

Special invitations were sent to the Bishop of the Diocese, 
to former rectors of the parish, to the rectors of the seven 
daughter parishes — Mamaroneck, Bedford, Scarsdale, North 
Castle, New Castle, White Plains and Port Chester, to 
the Rev. William Tatlock, D.D., secretary of the House of 
Bishops ; to the Rev. Thomas Harris, D.D., secretary of the 
Diocesan Convention ; to the rectors of neighboring 
parishes ; to the present and former members of the con- 
gregation of the Church, and to the people of Rye generally. 

Mr. Richard Henry Warren, organist of the Church, 
directed the music, the choir being supplemented by 



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members of the choirs of St. James's and St. Bartholomew's 
churches. New York City. In the following pages will be 
found copies of the invitation and programme, a full report 
of the services, and also an appendix containing a com- 
plete hst of the Rectors, Wardens, Vestrymen, Trustees, 
Treasurers and Clerks of the Parish since its foundation, 
compiled from the records. 



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^1^ are Thy ways. Who going through the vale of misery use it for a well 

and the pools are filled with water. They will go from strength to strength, 

and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Zion. Amen. 



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g^% HOW amiable are Thy dwellings, Thou Lord of Hosts. My soul 
%M[j hdth a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord; my 
^-^ heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God. Blessed are they that 
dwell in Thy house, they will be alway praising Thee. Hallelujah. 

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fiDorntng prai^er anb Iboli? Communion, 

ELEVEN O'CLOCK. 

The Bishop and officiating clergy met in the vestry- 
room, from whence the procession, led by the Wardens and 
Vestrymen of the Parish, marched down the south aisle and 
up the center aisle of the church, to the singing of hymn 
483, " Christ is made the sure foundation." The Bishop, 
Archdeacon Frederick B. Van Kleeck of White Plains, the 
Rev. Dr. William Tatlock of Stamford, Conn., the Rev. Dr. 
Thomas R. Harris of New York, the Rev. Lea Luquer of 
Bedford, the Rev. Messrs. S. F. Holmes, Ely C. Burr, 
Frederick B. Howden, and W. C. Wilson took seats within 
the sanctuary. The Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster and the 
Rector occupied stalls in the chancel. Morning Prayer was 
said bv Mr. Brewster; the lessons were read by the Rector; 
the Introit hymn 418, "O God our help in ages past,'' 
was sung by choir and congregation. After the hymn, Mr. 
Brewster and the Rector entered the sanctuary and the 
Bishop began the ante-communion service. The Epistle 
was read by Dr. Frederick B. Van Kleeck, Archdeacon of 
Westchester, and the Gospel by the Rev. Dr. Tatlock. 
Hymn 490, " Glorious things of thee are spoken," followed, 
at the close of which the Bishop made an address, which ap- 
pears below. The Offertory was devoted to Diocesan Mis- 
sions. The Anthem was Ps. Ixxxiv: 4.7, " Blessed are they 
that dwell in thy house." The Bishop, as celebrant, pro- 
ceeded with the Holy Communion, in which he was assisted 
by the Rector and Clergy within the sanctuary. At the 
close of the service, hymn 522, " On our way rejoicing," 
was sung, while the Bishop, Clergy and Choir returned 
to the vestry-room. 

After morning service, luncheon was served in the 
Parish House to which all were invited, about two 
hundred and fifty accepting, 



afternoon Service, 

HALF-PAST TWO O'CLOCK. 

The Clergy and Choir met in the vestry-room as before, 
and entered the church during the singing of hymn 491, 
" The Church's one foundation." The Bishop was absent, 
having to attend a missionary meeting in New York. Arch- 
deacon Van Kleeck acted as chairman and took charge of 
the service, the Rev. Dr. Reese F. Aslop, Archdeacon of 
Brooklyn, a former rector of the parish, taking a seat in 
the sanctuary. 

The service consisted of the Apostles' Creed, versicles, 
and collects read by the Rector. After the singing of 
hymn 493, " Oh, 'twas a joyful sound to hear," an address 
was made by the Chairman, after which he introduced 
Thomas T. Sherman, Esq., who then delivered 

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The " Deiis viisereatur " was then very effectively sung by 
the choir. Immediately after this, the Chairman invited 
some of the visitors, the former Rectors and Archdeacon 
Kirkby, now in charge, to make a few remarks. These all 
readily responded. Their addresses will be found in the 
following pages. Hymn 450, " All hail the power of 
Jesus' Name!" was sung with great spirit by choir and 
congregation alike. The Archdeacon closed the service 
with some suitable collects and the Benediction. Hymn 
397, " Oh, what the joy and the glory must be," formed 
the Recessional and so closed the interesting services of this 
memorable day in the Parish. 



flDorntnG Service* 

Address of the Right Reverend Henky C. Potter, D.D., 
Bishop of New York. 

I want, before I say what is appropriate to this day, to 
make my personal acknowledgments to the Rector of this 
Parish for having arranged that the offering this morning 
should be devoted to the purposes of diocesan missions. I 
had supposed that, of course, upon a day like this, eminently 
a parish festival as it is, whatever was given here would 
be given to your own uses. And I congratulate you, my 
brethren, upon the illustration which your Rector has given 
of what I believe to be the spirit which ought to dominate 
the day, in that he has asked you to appropriate what shall 
be given here to the churches within this Archdeaconry 
less favored than yourselves. 

Not a great many years ago, I was visiting in England 
in a rural parish in one of the midland counties, and, after 
luncheon, I was taken, as a matter of course, by the vicar 
of the parish to see the parish church. As I walked up 
and down the aisles, I said to the vicar, " This must be a 
very old church." " No," he said, " only the fifteenth 
century." A very impressive illustration of the fact that 
our conceptions of age are, after all, purely relative. There 
was an edifice four hundred years old, but to that man 
accustomed to buildings a thousand years old, to a cathe- 
dral a considerable part of which was built in the year 
800 A. D., a church which was completed in the fifteenth 
century became relatively modern. 

We give the kaleidoscope another turn, and look at the 
conjunction of dates and facts with which we are confronted 
here to-day. Compared with what we know of the churches 
and the church edifices, the organized forms of Christianity 
in our land, this is a very ancient parish, and this is, and it 



afternoon Service, 

HALF-PAST TWO O'CLOCK. 

The Clergy and Choir met in the vestry-room as before, 
and entered the church during the singing of hymn 491, 
" The Church's one foundation." The Bishop was absent, 
having to attend a missionary meeting in New York. Arch- 
deacon Van Kleeck acted as chairman and took charge of 
the service, the Rev, Dr. Reese F. Aslop, Archdeacon of 
Brooklyn, a former rector of the parish, taking a seat in 
the sanctuary. 

The service consisted of the Apostles' Creed, versicles, 
and collects read by the Rector. After the singing of 
hymn 493, " Oh, 'twas a joyful sound to hear," an address 
was made by the Chairman, after which he introduced 
Thomas T. Sherman, Esq., who then delivered 

^bc 1bi0torical H^^re06, 

The " Deus inisereatur " was then very effectively sung by 
the choir. Immediately after this, the Chairman invited 
some of the visitors, the former Rectors and Archdeacon 
Kirkby, now in charge, to make a few remarks. These all 
readily responded. Their addresses will be found in the 
following pages. Hymn 450, " All hail the power of 
Jesus' Name!" was sung with great spirit by choir and 
congregation alike. The Archdeacon closed the service 
with some suitable collects and the Benediction. Hymn 
397, " Oh, what the joy and the glory must be," formed 
the Recessional and so closed the interesting services of this 
memorable day in the Parish. 



flDorntno Service, 

Address of the Right Reverend Henry C. Potter, D.D., 
Bishop of New York. 

I want, before I say what is appropriate to this day, to 
make my personal acknowledgments to the Rector of this 
Parish for having arranged that the offering this morning 
should be devoted to the purposes of diocesan missions. I 
had supposed that, of course, upon a day like this, eminently 
a parish festival as it is, whatever was given here would 
be given to your own uses. And I congratulate you, my 
brethren, upon the illustration which your Rector has given 
of what I believe to be the spirit which ought to dominate 
the day, in that he has asked 3'-ou to appropriate what shall 
be given here to the churches within this Archdeaconry 
less favored than yourselves. 

Not a great many years ago, I was visiting in England 
in a rural parish in one of the midland counties, and, after 
luncheon, I was taken, as a matter of course, by the vicar 
of the parish to see the parish church. As I walked up 
and down the aisles, I said to the vicar, " This must be a 
very old church." " No," he said, " only the fifteenth 
century." A very impressive illustration of the fact that 
our conceptions of age are, after all, purely relative. There 
was an edifice four hundred years old, but to that man 
accustomed to buildings a thousand years old, to a cathe- 
dral a considerable part of which was built in the year 
800 A. D., a church which was completed in the fifteenth 
century became relatively modern. 

We give the kaleidoscope another turn, and look at the 
conjunction of dates and facts with which we are confronted 
here to-day. Compared with what we know of the churches 
and the church edifices, the organized forms of Christianity 
in our land, this is a very ancient parish, and this is, and it 



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ought to be, a memorable day. Anything that has survived 
two hundred years in a country like ours, anything that 
goes back and dates its beginning to the latter part of the 
seventeenth century, nearly one hundred years before the 
Revolution, a parish which has not only lived through all 
those troublous times, but has prospered and grown and 
widened its influence, is something which certainly has in 
it the elements of permanence. And that is, in fact, the 
impressive characteristic of the Church whose children we 
are. 

I was walking one night through Regent street with the 
late Mr. John Bright, after having dined with a kinsman of 
one of the Vestry of this parish. You will remember that 
Mr. John Bright was a Quaker. He was talking about the 
disestablishment of the Church of England, which, from his 
point of view, he thought a very desirable thing. But, 
said he, " Dr. Potter, the prospects of the disestablishment 
of the Church of England are extremely remote. Unfortun- 
ately for us who are Quakers, the Chtirch of England has 
roots."' That was precisely the situation. The Church 
whose children we are, and the Parish whose festival we 
come to commemorate to-day upon the two hundredth anni- 
versary of its birth, is here, dear brethren, because it has 
roots; because, in other words, it has certain features and 
characteristics deep down in the soil of the ages, which 
have withstood, and which will withstand, the shock of 
time. And, therefore, a prominent note in our congratula- 
tions ought to be, as we gather here, the fact that we be- 
long to something which has in it the seed of a life and 
power that will last. 

Martineau, 1 think it is, has said that when one goes 
to the old world, to Athens or to Rome, or wherever as 
conspicuously as there, there survive monuments of the 



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past, it is a striking fact that the institutions that were 
identified with the physical wants of men have largely 
vanished. But, on the banks of the Nile and in the great 
temple at Athens and at Rome and elsewhere, the buildings 
that survive are the buildings that stood for the spiritual 
wants of men. Supremely is this true of the institutions of 
our holy religion. The Church survives, has survived and 
will survive, because, whatever its errors, its infirmities, its 
shortcomings, that thing which is essential in it speaks to 
that thing which is innermost in the spiritual consciousness 
of man. God, the future life, the want of the soul, the 
pardon of sin, the cry of the human heart with David out 
of his helplessness and infirmity, " Lead me to the rock that 
is hio-her than I," all that these stand for, on the one 
hand and the other, is bound up with the story of its life. 

Yes ; all that is true. But here, this morning, we are 
reminded that something else, and more, is true. There 
are men in this church who can remember very well 
changes that have come to pass within a single generation, 
or a generation or two, in the religious history of the land 
in which we live. Any one of us, if we choose, can go back 
over the two or three hundred years which that history 
covers and find what I mean still more strikingly illustrated. 
Religious ideas have survived, but what a constant change 
and evanishment there has been of things that have been 
baptized as religious institutions ! One of the most impress- 
ive facts in the history of a land like ours, where liberty is 
the first note of the Constitution, in regard to matters of 
religion, is the way in which religious bodies have come 
into existence to represent some particular phase of the 
Christian religion — some reaction, some revolt, some refor- 
mation — have served, as is illustrated in a very impressive 
way, I think, by that venerable society to which Mr. John 



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Bright himself belonged, a very distinct and very honorable 
purpose, by bringing into view certain lost aspects of 
the Christian religion, certain great fundamental truths 
which have been overshadowed ; and then, having served 
their use, have gradually grown pale and thin and meagre, 
and later have vanished out of the horizon. With the most 
entire humility, with the keenest consciousness of our own 
shortcomings — God forbid that I should be unwilling to 
recognize them — -we may yet rejoice here this morning in 
a very different history, and that in the face of grave and 
unprecedented obstacles. 

For, consider a moment, the circumstances through 
which a parish like this, two hundred years old, in these 
United States of America, has passed. We go back to 
1695, and there were no United States of America. This 
parish and all beyond it belonged to that monarchical 
system with which the Church was connected as an estab- 
lishment. It had, here in this town of Rye, an " established 
church," and my brother, the Rector of St. Paul's, East- 
chesterj put in my hands this morning, as we were on our 
way here, a copy of an act passed in the early days of the 
Legislature of this State in order to shake off the hateful 
yoke of the establishment, so far as it existed in the Episco- 
pal churches of this county, and to free the people of 
Westchester from the burden of maintaining any such 
establishment. Very well; the moment you look back upon 
such a state of facts as that, you get a very vivid picture of 
the way the Episcopal Church at the beginning of the 
existence of the Republic must have appeared to the minds 
of a very large proportion of the Christian people who were 
dissatisfied with England, and who were led to believe that 
the Church represented that monarchical system from which 
the country had, at so great a cost, just shaken itself free. 



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She was identified by ecclesiastical inheritance with the 
people "on the other side" in the Revolutionary struggle. 
Everything about her was odious, in other words, to the 
mind of a Republican, and pre-eminently to the mind of 
a Republican who was not a churchman. But she had to 
face that situation. She had to face it under discouraee- 
ment so profound that, as ni}^ clerical brethren at any rate 
know, the first bishop of this diocese, at one point in its 
history thought that the Episcopal Church in this country 
had absolutely no future, and that the wisest thing to do in 
regard to it would be to abandon the field. God be praised, 
the field was not abandoned. The Church here, in New 
York, at Westchester, Eastchester, in Bedford and in other 
parts of this State, held its ground under manifold dis- 
couragements, with a large inheritance of scorn and 
ignominy in particular cases, but with a firm faith in its 
divine origin, and in its calling and mission to the American 
people. 

We are here this morning to ask ourselves the question 
whether the two hundred years which have passed have 
vindicated that faith and at all realized those earlier expec- 
tations? For myself, I venture to claim that, where one 
looks especially at the work of the Church as it has been 
done during the last quarter of a century — the last genera- 
tion, one may say, so far as you and I are familar with it — 
it has done so in an increasing degree. Two elements of 
power have, I venture to thmk, illustrated themselves in 
the history of the Church in this country, in this diocese, and 
in this parish. One of them has been its distinctly institu- 
tional character, as something with a past, as something 
which claimed its relation, by no uncertain tie, with primi- 
tive Christianity, as something which maintained its order 
because it has found that order in the New Testament 



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itself, and derived it by no uncertain sequence from those 
who laid the foundations of the Christian church; and as 
something- which has maintained through all its history, and 
pre-eminently through all its history in this land, two distinct 
characteristics: First of all, its reverence for a divine 
authority, whether uttered in the word of God or uttered 
in the historic church, and then its recognition of the 
responsibilities of a church with divine gifts to adjust her- 
self by every possible means to whatever exigencies con- 
fronted her. In one word, institutional substance and 
foundation first ; and then, flexibility of methods ; the 
readiness, in other words, to use whatever instrumentality 
best fitted the needs of the Church and her children, and 
thus to find a way to do her Master's work without being 
too sensitive or over-refined as to its source or its character- 
istics. 

Now, when the Church took up its work here in this 
land two hundred years ago, one of these characteristics, 
I think, was conspicuously wanting. The Church was not 
a bod}' distinguished for flexibility as to its methods, but it 
held the homage and convictions of multitudes of men, be- 
cause it was a body which distinguished itself by its loyalty 
to the Faith, and was scrupulous in its witness to that 
Faith. The time came, however, when, confronted day by 
day, as the years went on, with new emergencies, the Church 
learned, late though it was, that other lesson, the lesson of 
flexibility in its methods, and of a ready adaptation to the 
wants of the people. 

You have here, in the life and the work of him who is 
over you in the Lord, a very felicitous illustration of what, 
by this last, I mean. The Rector of this Parish has not been 
afraid to use whatever weapon came to his hand, and to con- 
secrate it to the glory of God and to the good of his people. 



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He has been willing to go out into the highways and hedges, 
that he might compel men to come in, and to bring into 
the life of this settled, well-ordered parish, something of 
the freedom of those northwestern airs in which once he 
lived and served as a missionary, and so to teach all of us 
that the church of God, if she is to do her work well, must 
move forward on these two lines: First of all, institutional 
permanence, loyalty to the faith, constancy to her divine 
order, and, then, an eager, cordial readiness to welcome 
every means consistent with that loyalty and order, to make 
men churchmen and to bring them within the fellowship of 
Christ's body. 

I rejoice to believe that in doing this, he who is here to- 
day as your minister has the sympathy of his people. I con- 
gratulate you upon what he has accomplished. I rejoice 
with you in the elements of permanence in the Hfe of this 
parish which confront us on every side, and I pray God 
that, long after you and I have vanished out of the horizon, 
when the chronicler of another two centuries of the history 
of Christ's Church at Rye shall come here, as our young 
brother will this afternoon, to read the stor}- of its past, he 
may be able to say of that time yet to come, that it was 
enriched and adorned by a loyal and loving service such as 
that which makes most of all beautiful the past which to-day 
we commemorate. 

Hfternoon Service, 

Address of the Rev. Frederick B. Van Kleeck, D.D., 
Archdeacon of Westchester County, Chairman. 

In the absence of the Bishop, which is regretted by us 
all, and by the kindly courtesy of your Rector, I am asked 
to preside over this afternoon's service. It is with o-reat 



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pleasure that I do so, for 1 want to add my word of con- 
gratulation to the dear Rector of this Parish upon this aus- 
picious occasion. 

We all feel, I think, in Westchester County, as though 
Rye Parish were the mother of us all, in one sense. I want 
to acknowledge that a certain characteristic seemed to abide 
in the Parish of Rye from the very first. The Bishop 
pointed out some characteristics that were very strong, but 
it seems to me that the strongest of all was the diffusive 
power — the power which, the Parish having gotten roots, 
as the Bishop expressed it, spread abroad, and did its work 
in other places. I think, in the history that we shall hear in 
a few moments, this characteristic will appear to be very 
marked. It was the same lesson which the first constitu- 
ents of the parish clergy, the Rectors of this Parish and the 
parishioners of those Rectors had learned in the old Mis- 
sionary Church of England. The Church was established 
by the love and generosity of that elder Church, that 
mother, and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel 
in Foreign Parts, sent across the ocean those good and stal- 
wart and faithful men, who came here and there, to Stam- 
ford and Rye, and did the work, laying the foundations 
deep and broad for the prosperity we enjoy. 

I am reminded by the old history that even Stamford, 
in the great diocese of Connecticut, sent her clergyman, the 
Rev. Mr. Dibblee, down to this Parish, and then to Bedford 
and Compound and Peekskill, and, on the way, he stopped at 
Croton and White Plains, and, in that missionary journey, 
this early missionai^y of the Church of England found 
abundant evidence of interest in the Church, and from 
that early time, services began to be held throughout our 
county. For a long time, White Plains had her services ad- 
ministered faithfully and efficiently by the Rector of this 



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Church, and my early parishioners used to come over here 
until the year 1824, to attend services at Christ's Church, 
Rye. 

So I want, as the Rector of White Plains, to express the 
appreciation of myself and my parish for that fostering- care 
and for the faithful work that was done in the beginnino- for 
the establishment of my own parish. 

I only wish to say these few words, and then to intro- 
duce to you the gentleman who is to give us the historic 
sketch, the Clerk of the Vestry of this parish, Mr. Thomas 
T. Sherman. 

Address of Thomas T. Sherman, Esq. 

Two centuries ago, the freeholders, summoned by a 
justice of the peace, met, pursuant to law, and chose the 
first wardens and vestrymen of the parish of Rye. This 
important event, the first in the history of our church 
and parish, we meet to-day to commemorate. We were 
glad to unite with our hospitable neighbors of Westchester, 
when, in September, 1893, they celebrated the two hun. 
dredth anniversary of the signing by the Colonial gov- 
ernor of the Act of 1693, under which this and other 
parishes were formed, as the founding of their parish. It 
was, perhaps, properly so considered, but, if so, it was also 
the founding of the other parishes provided for in the act, 
including our own. 

Time will now permit of but a brief sketch of our 
parish history already so fully and well written by Mr. Bol- 
ton and Dr. Baird, upon whose works and the parish and 
town records, reliance for the facts must now be placed. 

The first settlers of our town, originally a part of Con- 
necticut, came from Greenwich, Conn., in 1660. They pur- 
chased from the Indians what is now known as Manursing 



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Island, and located there, calling their little settlement 
Hastings. Soon after, in or about 1663, others settled the 
adjoining mainland, then called Poningo, among whom 
were Thomas and Hachaliah Brown, who came to Massa- 
chusetts in 1632 from Rye, in Sussex, England, whence the 
name of their settlement and of our town. 

On May 11, 1665, the General Court of Connecticut en- 
acted " That the villages of Hastings and Rye shall be for 
the future conjoyned and made one plantation, and that it 
shall be called by the appellation of Rye." November 28, 
1683, Rye was ceded by Connecticut to the province of 
New York. It revolted back to Connecticut in 1697, but 
was restored to New York in 1700. 

The first settlers of Rye were Puritans, mainly Presby- 
terians and Congregationalists or Independents, and a few 
Quakers, and, although, at the foundation of the town, 
they appropriated 18 or 20 acres of land for the bene- 
fit of the ministry, for many years they had " occasional 
preaching only." In 1674 the General Court desired the 
Rev. Eliphalet Jones, then a missionary at Greenwich, " to 
take the paynes to dispense the word of God to the people 
of Rye, once a fortnight on the Lord's day." He did so 
dispense it for about three years, but the first minister ac- 
tually settled here was the Rev. Thomas Denham, who was 
at Rye from 1677 to about 1684, when he removed to Bed- 
ford. He seems to have been very much liked, and his 
memory is said to have been " cherished by the people 
here with peculiar veneration." Other ministers, Presbyter- 
ian or Congregational, followed in due course. Until 1693 
the English law recognized here only the " Protestant Re- 
ligion " and there was no Church of England clergyman 
in the province, except the chaplain at the Fort in New 
York. 



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The town raised by taxation the money for the support 
of the minister, who was elected by a majority of the house- 
holders, and a parsonage house and lot were provided for 
him. These were in the village, on the strip of land between 
the west side of the present Post Road and the Blind 
Brook. Near-by, on the opposite side of the road, there 
stood the house of Timothy Knapp, where the people met 
to worship on Sunday, summoned by the beating of a 
drum, a custom continued for many years. On June 23, 
168 1, " The Town gave Timothy Knapp 40 shillings for the 
liberty of his house to meet in and for beating of the drum 
for the time past." The minister received a salary of ^^30 
per year. Glebe land also was provided for him. When 
the first Church of England clergyman came here, he was 
put into possession of the parsonage and glebe land by or- 
der of Governor Cornbury. The parsonage was after- 
wards held by the church, but the glebe was recovered by 
the Presbyterians, probably through a lawsuit. This original 
glebe is now part of the farm owned by Mr. John A. 
Gwynne. 

In 1692, Benjamin Fletcher became Governor of the 
Province, and, although there were very few Church of 
England people in the Province and " scarcely six " in 
Westchester County, the Governor determined to establish 
the Church of England here as a means of suppressing 
many of the evils prevalent in the colony. With that end 
in view, he succeeded in inducing the Colonial Legislature, 
composed with one exception of Dissenters, in 1693 to pass 
" An Act for settling a ministry and raising a maintenance 
for them in the City of New York, County of Richmond, 
Westchester and Queens County." This was drawn by 
James Graham, Speaker of the House and the only Church 
of England man in the Legislature. It recited that " Pro- 



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faneness and Licentiousness hath of late overspread this 
Province for want of a settled ministry throughout the same " 
and " to the end that the same may be removed and the 
ordinances of God duly administered," provided for the 
induction and establishment of " a good sufficient Protest- 
ant Minister to officiate and have the care of souls " in the 
parishes named, Westchester County to have two, one to 
have the care of Westchester, Eastchester, Yonkers and the 
Manor of Pelham ; the other to have the care of Rye, 
Mamaroneck and Bedford, comprising the precinct or parish 
of Rye. The Justices of the Peace of the parishes or pre- 
cincts thus established were directed, under severe penalty, 
in each year to summon the freeholders to meet on the 
second Tuesday in January, to choose two church wardens 
and ten vestrymen who should call ministers to officiate, 
and the justices and vestrymen were empowered to raise by 
taxation the amounts necessary to maintain the ministers 
and the poor. The Westchester County ministers were 
each to receive ;^ioo per annum, ^50 " to be paid in country 
produce at money price," payable quarterly. 

Pursuant to this law, the freeholders of Rye (which then 
included the present towns of White Plains and Harrison) 
and of Mamaroneck and Bedford, forming the precinct or 
parish of Rye, summoned by warrant of Justice Joseph 
Theall, met on February 28, 1695, and chose George Lane 
and John Brondige church wardens, and Jonathan Hart, 
Joseph Horton, Joseph Purdy, Timothy Knapp, Hachaliah 
Brown, Thomas Merritt, Deliverance Brown and Isaac 
Denham, vestrymen — only eight vestrymen, instead of ten, 
as required by law. Most of these names are still repre- 
sented among us and in the neighboring towns by their 
descendants. One of the mem bers of the present vestry, Mr. 
Joseph Park, is a lineal descendant, through five generations, 



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of Vestryman Joseph Horton. He is also a great nephew 
of Joseph Park, who was a vestryman from 1800 to 18 [O. 

These first wardens and vestrymen were all leading men 
of their day and large land-owners, nearly all of them being 
original proprietors of Rye. George Lane lived where the 
Roman Catholic Church and rectory now stand, and at his 
house, the meetings of the early settlers to discuss public 
affairs were held. He was a constable and one of the first 
patentees of Rye by patent of Governor Treat, of Connec- 
ticut, dated January 22, 1697. 

John Brondige was the first Town Clerk of Rye, deputy 
to the General Court of Connecticut, and a townsman or 
selectman. Jonathan Hart was a townsman. Joseph Hor- 
ton, a miller by occupation, owned a mill situated at or 
near the present village of Milton, was the lieutenant of 
the " Trayn Band,'' a justice of the peace, authorized by the 
General Court to " grant warrants and to marry persons "; 
served as deputy to the General Court and commissioner, 
and in 1699 the town chose him " to keep a place of enter- 
tainment for travelers." His daughter married Roger 
Park, also a leading man. Joseph Purdy was called by the 
Rev. Mr. Wetmore " one of the chief promoters of the 
Church." Timothy Knapp, one of the original proprietors 
and patentees and a deputy, was also constable. At his 
house, prior to 1682, religious services were held as before 
mentioned. Hachaliah Brown, the first of many of that 
name in after generations, and who came from Rye in Eng- 
land, is, with his brother Thomas, probably responsible for 
the name of our town. 

Deliverance Brown was the son of Hachaliah, and held 
the offices of constable, justice and supervisor. 

Thomas Merritt lived at about the site of the residence 
of the late Mr. James M. Ives. He was a townsman, a 



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deputy and one of the first patentees, and was sent with 
Deliverance Brown in 1697 to petition the General Court 
of Connecticut to take Rye back into that colony. 

Isaac Denham, the son of the Rev. Thomas Denham, 
the first Presbyterian or Congregational minister actually 
settled at Rye, was one of the wealthiest and most in- 
fluential citizens, and gave land to our church in 1723, 
He lived on the land now occupied by the Methodist 
Church and parsonage. 

Thus the freeholders of Rye elected their foremost men 
to the Vestry, but not one of them was a Church of England 
man ; all were Dissenters, 

The town records show no acts done by this first vestry, 
and the historians say that it was elected merely to comply 
with the law and to relieve the justices from its penalty. 
The next recorded election was " at a lawful towne meet- 
ing " on January 12, 1703, when "the precinct of Rye 
chose Colonel Caleb Heathcote and Justice Theall church 
wardens, and Justice Purdy, Justice Mott, Capt. Horton, 
Deliverance Brown, Hachaliah Brown, George Lane, Sen., 
Thomas Purdy, Thomas Disbrow, Isaac Denham and 
Samuel Lane vestrimen for the year ensuing." During 
this interval, Rye had revolted to Connecticut and returned 
to its allegiance to New York, as before mentioned. Colonel 
Heathcote, whose name and fame are so well known, the 
first lord of the Manor of Scarsdale, was the chief patron, 
organizer and upholder of the Church of England in New 
York. He came from England in 1692, because of disap- 
pointment in love, and became and continued until his death 
a leading man in the colony. He was colonel of the militia, 
one of the Governor's council, Judge of Westchester 
County, Judge of the Court of Admiralty, first Mayor of 
the Borough of Westchester, Mayor of New York City, 



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and held other important offices. He was also one of the 
founders and incorporators, in 1697, of Trinity Church, 
New York, and one of its vestrymen from 1697 to 1714. 
He served, too, as warden of Westchester Parish from 1695 
to 1701. 

In June, 1701, the "Society for the Propagation of the 
Gospel in Foreign Parts " was incorporated, and by it the 
early rectors of our parish and the neighboring parishes 
were sent as missionaries. From their letters to the Society 
and those of Col. Heathcote, who was elected a member in 
1704, we get much information about the early history of 
our parish. 

In 1702 the Rev. John Bartow was licensed by Bishop 
Compton, of London, to officiate as a missionary at Rye, 
but the people of Westchester, with the aid of Colonel 
Heathcote, succeeded in securing him as their rector. 

In May, 1704, the Rev. Thomas Pritchard, described by 
Colonel Heathcote as " a promising young gent," was in- 
ducted as the first rector at Rye by Governor Cornbury, 
who asserted under the act of 1693 and exercised, the right 
to induct rectors. The Governor's mandate was directed 
to all rectors and others in the province, " and also to Caleb 
Heathcote, Esq., and Joseph Theall, Church Wardens of the 
Parish Church of Rye, in the County of Westchester," and 
enjoined and commanded them to " induct and present the 
Rev, Thomas Pritchard as rector to ye Rector}^ or Parish 
Church of Rye," and that they " put him in possession of 
the Rectory or Parish Church, of Rye, aforesaid, and of all 
the glebes, rights and appurtenances thereunto belonging." 
There was then no church in Rye, and services were there- 
after held, as previously by the Presbyterians, in the Town 
House. The first rector found the natives averse to the 
Church and its liturgy, and he seems to have soon tired of 



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his charge, for Colonel Heathcote wrote in February, 1705, 
that Mr. Pritchard lived " at a public house in a French 
town called New Rochelle, about six miles from his 
church," neglected his duties and had incurred the enmity 
of his parishioners. In June, 1704, he married Anna, 
daughter of Nicholas William Stuyvesant, and died in 1705. 
His successor, the Rev. George Muirson, was practically 
our first rector. Governor Cornbury's mandate for his in- 
duction to the rectory and parish church of Rye, Mamaro- 
neck and Bedford, was dated July 31, 1705. He, too, found 
no church, and, indeed, no parishioners, at first. There were 
no Church of England people here. The inhabitants, to 
use his words, " were some Quakers, some Anabaptists, but 
chiefly Presbyterians and Independents ; they were vio- 
lently set against our Church." He was, however, endowed 
with amiability and tact, and soon succeeded in building up 
a congregation, many of whom became members and com- 
municants of the Church. He is said to have done more 
good in the town, in the first six weeks after his arrival, than 
all the ministers had previously done since the settlement 
of the town. He wrote November 21, 1705, that he had 
" had happy success " in his ministry, had a large congre- 
gation, had baptized eighty persons, and had persuaded the 
parish to build a stone church. Accordingly, we find that 
at a town meeting held September 26, 1705, the town 
"agreed by voat to bould a Church for the worship of 
God," and " to sett this above said Church at the east end 
of the lot which was formerly Mr. CoUer's in the street." 
This is the site of all subsequently erected churches, includ- 
ing the present edifice. " Mr. Coller " was Benjamin Col- 
lier, who, in his time, served as High Sheriff and as County 
Clerk of Westchester County. Governor Cornbury, by 
hcense dated January 22, 1706, " Licensed and impowered 



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the Rector and Inhabitants of the Town of Rye, in the 
County of Westchester, in the said Province of New York, 
to erect and build a Church in the said Town for the pub- 
lick worship of God." On February i8, 1706, the town 
agreed that "all male persons from sixteen years and up- 
wards be assessed at twelve pound per head in all charges 
for the building of a church." The erection of the church 
was begun about April following. The stone work was 
finished and covered the same year, but by reason of the 
poverty of the people, the inside of the building was not 
completed sufihciently for use until the end of 1607, Even 
then there was no floor laid, and the ground was used for a 
floor until 1712, The pews were not put in until about 
1724. 

The first church was of rough stone, about 50 feet long, 
36 feet wide and 20 feet high. Mr. Muirson described it as 
" a stately fabric " and says that " it was built by the inhabi- 
tants of the Town of Rye without the help of the rest of 
the Parish." Col. Heathcote was very instrumental in the 
building of this church, contributing the nails and all the 
iron work. Mr. Muirson continued faithful and devoted to 
his charge, preaching and working hard and successfully in 
the various towns of the Parish. In May, 1706, he had 
baptized about two hundred, mostly adults, and had over 
forty communicants. His work was certainly disinterested, 
for, on account of the poverty of the people and his desire 
to raise the necessary fund to build the church, he disre- 
garded himself and did not press for his salary, so that in 
the first two years of his rectorship he received something 
less than ^20 for his services. Death ended the labors of 
this devoted man on October 12, 1708, and he was buried 
under the parish church. In 1706, during his rectorship. 
Queen Anne, through the Society, for the Propagation 



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of the Gospel in Foreign Parts presented to the church at 
Rye, as well as the neighboring churches, books, pulpit 
and communion cloths and silver chalices and patens. 
The chalice and paten thus presented to this church are 
still in use and inscribed " Annas RegincC." 

Mr. Muirson was succeeded in October, 1709, by the 
Rev. Mr. Reynolds, who was recalled for some unknown 
reason after serving for a few weeks only. 

In April, 17 10, the vestry called the Rev. Christopher 
Bridge, a graduate of St. John's College, Cambridge. The 
mandate for his induction to the rectory and parish church 
of the Parish of Rye in the Province of New York, is dated 
October 17, 17 10. In the year 171 1, the records of the 
Vestry and Parish begin, the first entry being the election 
of wardens and vestr3'raen on January 7, 171 1, when, besides 
the ten vestrymen, three w ardens seem to have been elected. 
From this time on, the records of the Vestry have been con- 
tinuously kept, save for two interruptions, one of about nine 
years, at the time of the Revolutionary War, and another 
for the years 1828 to 1832 inclusive. 

When Mr. Bridge took charge, he found a parsonage 
with three acres of land, " the house so much decayed that 
it was scarce habitable," and it appears that he did not try 
to occupy it. He found " nothing done to the inside of the 
church, not so much as a ffoor laid, " and writes, " When I 
had for a year or two preached upon the ground, I got 
subscriptions for about i^50 among the inhabitants towards 
finishing the inside," It was not, in fact, finished until 
1727. In November, 1710, he reports that there are seven 
hundred and seventy-two inhabitants, four hundred and 
forty-one of whom are baptized, and forty-three communi- 
cants, some of whom are Presbyterians and Independents, 
but " willing to partake of the Sacrament in what way they 



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can, I'ather than not at all." It had not been the custom for 
the Rector to meet with the Vestry, and on July 9, 1712, 
" Mr. Bridge communicated to the Vestry the following 
orders " from the Governor: " You are to give order forth- 
with (if the same be not already done), that every Orthodox 
Minister within your government be one of the Vestr}^ in 
his respective Parish, and that no Vestry be held without 
him, except in case of sickness or that, after notice of vestry 
summoned, he omitt to come." This has ever since been 
the rule and is now the law. Mr, Bridge was successful in 
his w^ork in the Parish and was much respected by his own 
people and those of other denominations. He died May 
22, 1 719, and was also buried under the parish church, 
which distinction he and Mr. Muirson alone enjoyed. 

By act of the Legislature passed July 27, 1721, the ves- 
trymen were required to be sworn. 

After the death of Mr. Bridge, the rectorship was vacant 
for over three years, during which time the Dissenters un- 
successfully tried to get possession of the church. The 
clergy of the neighboring parishes officiated in turn at 
Rye. 

The Rev. Robert Jenney, chaplain at the Fort in New 
York, was called by the Vestry, and was inducted June 7, 
1722. He had official surveys of the church lands made 
and recorded, and by mandamus of the Supreme Court 
compelled the Justices and Vestry to raise ^60 to repair the 
parsonage house. He found many of the people " disaf- 
fected " and a dissenting preacher in the Town, who, how- 
ever, soon removed. In his time, the usual fee for a mar- 
riage was 6 shillings. New York currency, which, however, 
he says, he received very seldom. It was his custom to 
preach on Sundays at Bedford, North Castle and Mama- 
roneck, each eight times per annum ; at White Plains four 



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times, and the remaining Sundays at Rye. In 1723, Isaac 
Denham conveyed to Mr. Jenney and his successors in 
office as rectors, a piece of land on the Brook, adjoining the 
parsonage land, and which was subsequently sold by the 
church. Mr. Jenney's ministry seems to have been rather 
unsuccessful, and in May, 1726, he resigned. 

The next rector was the Rev. James Wetmore, born in 
Middletown, Connecticut, graduated at Yale College in 1714, 
and at first ordained a Congregational minister. In 1721, 
however, he became an Episcopalian, and was ordained in 
England in 1723 by the Bishop of London. He was called 
by the Vestry by a formal instrument under the hands and 
seals of the Wardens and six Vestr}- men, dated June 7, 1726. 
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel having previ- 
ously appointed the Rev. Thomas Colgan as missionary to 
Rye,upon request of theVestry,it withdrew this appointment 
and confirmed the call of Mr. Wetmore. He was inducted 
in June, 1726, and served long and faithfully until his death 
from smallpox on May 15, 1760, a period of nearly thirty- 
four years, and the longest term of any of our rectors. 
Under his sturdy and diligent ministration in all parts of 
the Parish, it thrived and grew. On June 6, 1732, he wrote 
that they were contriving to build a steeple and that he had 
" bought a bell to make a present of, weighing 93 pounds, 
that for the bigness, sounds well." This was the first bell 
of the parish church. On Januar}- 16, 1732, the Vestry 
resolved to raise £1 for a bell ringer and sweeping the 
church. In 1745 the Parish had grown so much that Mr. 
Wetmore procured the services of an assistant, the Rev. 
Mr, Lamson, who officiated at Bedford and North Castle, 
and also at Ridgefield until 1748. In 1759, St. George 
Talbot, Esq., of New York, put into Mr. Wetmore's hands 
;^6oo, reserving the interest to himself for life, and by will 



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gave ;/^400 to be added to it on his death " to purchase a 
convenient glebe for the use of the Society's Missionary at, 
Rye, forever." Mr. Wetmore, apparently, with this money 
purchased for the Church and "sequestered" to it, as he 
says in his will, some of his own land, about i8 acres on 
the west side of the Blind Brook, in which was the 
old cemetery where he and others were buried, and from 
which the remains were recently removed to Greenwood 
Union Cemetery. This land was afterwards sold by the 
Church. 

The Rev. Ebenezer Punderson, born in New Haven, and 
a graduate of Yale College, succeeded. He was inducted to 
the possession of the "Rectory of the Parish Church, of Rye, 
commonl}' called Grace Church, and of the Parish of Rye," 
on November 21, 1763. Although the name of " Grace 
Church" had been applied to the church for many years with- 
out any legal authority,this,apparently, is the first time it was 
used officially. It first appears in the town records in 1736 
when Grace Church Street is mentioned in a deed. The in- 
duction of Mr. Punderson was very elaborate inform. The 
Vestry called him ; then they "presented " him to the Gov- 
ernor, who first "admitted" him, then "instituted" him to 
the Parish, and then issued a mandate for his induction. The 
Rev. John Milner, rector of Westchester, then inducted 
him and made a certificate to that effect, and finally, Mr. 
Punderson, before Hachaliah Brown and Timothy Wet- 
more, declared his assent to the Book of Common Prayer 
and the rights and ceremonies of the Church. Messrs. 
Brown and Wetmore certified to this declaration, and also 
that he, on December 4, 1763, " after divine service was 
begun and before it was ended, read distinctly the thirt}'- 
nine Articles of Religion and declared his unfeigned assent 
and consent to them, and also made the above declaration." 



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The originals of these documents were formerly in the 
possession of the late Dr. John C. Jay. Mr. Punderson 
died September 22, 1764, of typhus fever, then epidemic, 
and was buried in the old church cemetery, west of Blind 
Brook. 

There was now, evidently, dissatisfaction with the situa- 
tion of the Parish, and on November 16, 1764, Peter Jay and 
fifteen others, inhabitants of the Parish of Rye, one of 
whom, John Thomas, was then a warden and two of whom, 
John Guion and Elisha Budd, were then vestrymen, pre- 
sented their petition to the Governor, setting- forth that 
the inhabitants of the said Parish of Rye in communion of 
the Church of England, have, by voluntary contributions, 
erected a decent and convenient church in the town of Rye, 
but that, for the want of some persons legally authorized 
to superintend the same and manage the affairs and inter- 
ests thereof, the said church is greatly decayed and the pe- 
titioners discouraged from contributing to the repair thereof, 
lest the money given for the purpose may be miss-applied, 
and that, on that account also, charitable and well-disposed 
people are discouraged in their design of establishing proper 
funds for the future support of the church and minister, 
and praying for incorporation. This petition was granted 
and a royal charter issued, dated December 19, 1764, 
incorporating the Parish by the name of " The Rector and 
Inhabitants of the Parish of Rye in Communion of the 
Church of England as by law established," providing for 
two church wardens and eight vestrymen, to be elected on 
Tuesday in Easter week in each year, and appointing Peter 
Jay and Elisha Budd to be the first wardens, and John 
Thomas and others the first vestrymen, and providing in 
detail for the government and management of the corpora- 
tion and Parish. This charter was, however, not accepted 



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or used by the Parish, as they continued to act under the 
old law until the Revolution, when the parish organization 
was broken up. It is noticeable that at the next annual 
election of wardens and vestrymen, held in January, 1765, 
three of the persons named as vestrymen in the charter 
of 1764 were elected. 

The Rev. Ephraim Avery was the next rector, licensed 
on June 2, 1765, and inducted by mandate dated September 
9, 1765. He, too, was a graduate of Yale College, of the 
class of 1761, and a native of Pomfret, Conn. The Parish 
now had the six districts, of Rye, White Plains, Manor of 
Scarsdale, Mamaroneck, Bedford and North Castle, but 
there were only about forty communicants. Mr. Avery 
was apparently well liked, and continued his ministry until 
after the Revolutionary War began. He sympathized 
with England, and on November 5, 1776, was found dead. 
He is supposed to have been murdered, and was buried in 
the same old church burying ground. Rye and its neighbor- 
hood suffered severely in the war. This territory, called 
the " neutral ground,'' was subjected to depredations by 
both armies, and most of the houses were plundered, the 
cattle seized and the farms laid desolate. The churches, 
too, were burned and the congregations broken up, and 
we find that the book of minutes of the Vestry contains no 
entries after the record of a meeting held on April 5, 1776, 
until 1785. The town records have no entries therein 
between April 7, 1772, and April i, 1783. Our church is 
supposed to have been burned in 1779. In 1784, services 
were held at Rye b}^ Mr. Andrew Fowler. 

The Constitution of the State of New York adopted 
on April 20, 1777, while providing that all statutes of 
the Colony in force on April 19, 1775, should continue the 
law of the State subject to alteration, abrogated such of 



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said statutes as might be " construed to establish or main- 
tain any particular denomination of Christians or their min- 
isters," and ordained that nothing in it contained should 
be construed to annul any charters made by the Crown 
prior to October 14, 1775, and that none of the said char- 
ters should be adjudged to be void by reason of non-user 
or misuser since April 19, 1775. This constitution, therelore, 
did not annul the charter of 1764 granted to the Church. 
Notwithstanding the provisions of the Constitution, the 
Legislature, by act passed April 20, 1784, repealed the act 
of 1693 and its amendments and supplements, reciting and 
declaring that by these "acts the inhabitants in the City 
and County of New York, County of Richmond, West- 
chester and Queens County, without distinction, have for 
many years been compelled to pay taxes for the support of 
the Episcopal Clergy in the said counties, contrary to every 
principle of justice and sound policy " ; that " by colour of 
such laws, it has been pretended, that the Episcopal 
Churches were established in the said counties, and claims 
in consequence thereof have been set up, and prosecutions 
commenced injurious to the rights and privileges of other 
denominations, to the great vexation and disquiet of the 
good people of this State "; that " although the spirit of the 
said laws are repugnant to the constitution of this State 
as tending to establish and maintain a particular de- 
nomination of Christians and ministers thereof, it appears 
nevertheless, incumbent on the legislature of this State, in 
order to remove every ground of uneasiness that may 
arise from such pretended claims in the future, that the 
said laws should be repealed." 

On April 6, 1784, the Legislature passed an act provid- 
ing that the members of religious societies not already 
established, might elect trustees to take care of their prop- 



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erty and become incorporated and file certificates of 
incorporation. 

Probably this act suggested to the people of our Church 
at Rye to meet on April 27, 1785, for the parish records 
show that on that day " the congregation of the Episcopale 
Church of Rye was called to meet at the house of Mrs. 
Tamer Haviland, in Rye, and being met together, proceeded 
to the choice of trustees to take charge ot the temporalities 
of the Church under the Presidency of Mr. Joshua Purdy 
and Mr. Isaiah Maynard, and then proceeded and unani- 
mously made choice of John Thomas, Esqr., William Miller, 
Esqr., Conl. Gilbert Budd, Mr. Joshua Purdy, Mr. John 
Falconeer and Mr. Isaac Brown as fit persons for the above 
purpose. Then divided the said trustees into three classes 
by lot," two in each class. William Miller, Esq., was chosen 
clerk. There was no expressed intention to incorporate 
under the Act of 1784, and no certificate of such incorpora- 
tion was made or filed. The Church was managed by 
trustees thus chosen until 1788. As there was no rector, 
the Trustees leased the glebe land and the parsonage, the 
lessee allowing " part of the house to be used as church 
and schoolhouse." Thus keeping up an organization, 
the Episcopalians of Rye retained the name of " Grace 
Church," and Mr. Andrew Fowler continued to read 
prayers and sermons in the parsonage and at White Plains 
on alternate Sundays. Having received a letter from the 
Rev. Samuel Provoost, rector of Trinity Church, dated 
April 17, 1786, enclosing the journal of the convention of 
the Protestant Episcopal Church, held in Philadelphia, in 
September, 1785, at a meeting of the congregation, held 
May 5, 1786, "it was unanimously agreed to send dele- 
gates " to the convention to meet in St. Paul's Church, in 
New York, on the third Tuesday of May, 1786, and William 



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Miller and Alexander Hunt, Esquires, were elected such 
delegates. 

By letter dated September 5, 1787, signed by four trus- 
tees and twenty "members of Grace Church in the parish 
of Rye, and County of Westchester," the Rev. Richard C. 
Moore, son of Thomas Moore and grandson of Colonel 
John Moore, of New York City, was invited to accept the 
rectorship at a salary of £120 per year. Among the signers 
of this were Peter Jay, son of Peter Jay, the elder ; John 
Thomas, Sheriff of the county ; James Wetmore, son of the 
former rector, and Major- General Thomas Thomas. Mr. 
Moore accepted this call and was rector until October i, 
1788, when he resigned. He afterwards became Bishop of 
Virginia, and died November 11, 1841, in his eightieth 
year. The charter granted to the church in 1764, although 
not previously accepted or acted upon, as before mentioned, 
seems now to have been called into use. The records state 
that " at a meeting of the members of Grace Church, in the 
parish of Rye, on Tuesday of Easter week, being the twenty- 
fifth day of March, 1788, and the day appointed by charter 
for the election of two wardens and eight vestrymen,'" Peter 
Jay and Isaac Purdy were elected wardens, with eight vestry- 
men. The church continued to act under this charter until 
its reincorporation in 1796, as mentioned later, and might 
have continued to act thereunder until the present time, as 
Trinity Church, New York, has continued under its old 
colonial charter. It certainl}' could have done so with a 
little legislative amendment, which might easily have been 
procured, if necessary. It had evidently been previously 
decided to build a new church, and at the meeting of the 
members, held March 25, 1788, "upon motion being made 
for the situation of the Church, now in agitation, it was 
unanimousl}^ determined to place it upon the hill, at or near 



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the place where the old ruins stand." This edifice was 
subsequently built of wood, under contract by James Ford, 
of New York, at a cost of £120, the materials being- fur- 
nished by the Church. To save expense, there was to be 
no steeple, and "it was determined to omit the gallery on 
the east, by which means the Church will be rendered 
lighter and the altar more solemn and grand." Tn June, 
1788, arrangements were made for the laying of the corner- 
stone and to have the Rector " compose a discourse suitable 
to the solemn occasion." This church was probably suffi- 
ciently completed to hold services in December, 1788, 
or soon after, and it is still standing on the other side of 
the Milton Road, where it was moved when the next church 
was built, and is now used as a dwelling house. The min- 
utes of the Vestry contain many details with respect to the 
building of this church and also a ground plan showing the 
pews, forty-three in number, a Hst of subscribers and 
amounts subscribed for the building and the names of the 
pew-holders with the respective numbers of their pews. 
There were two square front pews, one of which was given 
to Peter Jay, and, by unanimous vote of the vestry, "in 
consideration of the forwardness of the late Mr. Josiah 
Brown in promoting the building of the church and of his 
wife being left a widow," the other was allowed to her " by 
paying only the stated price." The other subscribers had 
priority in the choice of the other pews according to 
the respective amounts of their subscriptions. 

By act of the Legislature, passed March 7, 1788, en- 
titled " An act for dividing the counties of this State into 
towns," White Plains and Harrison were taken from Rye 
and made separate towns. The White Plains people, 
however, continued with our Church until several years 
later. 



The parish church of Bedford and North Castle was 
incorporated, April 19, 1789. 

There was no rector after Mr. Moore's departure, until 
December 15, 1790, when the Rev. David Foote accepted 
the position at ;^ioo per year and the profits of the glebe. 
Of course, money for the support of the Church was no 
longer raised by taxation, as before the war, and on 
December 15, 1790, the Vestry "resolved hereafter that 
collections be made in the church at Rye and the White 
Plains." This is the first mention of taking a collection in 
the church which occurs in the parish records, and on 
May 4, 1 79 1, is the first reference to a treasurer of the 
Church, when Jesse Hunt, Esq., was appointed to that 
office, now always so necessary in a church, and, sometimes, 
so far from being a sinecure. 

On March 13th of the same year the records first refer 
to music, when " Messrs. Elijah Purdy and Thomas Brown 
were appointed to settle with Peter Padock for tuning the 
psalm in Church." 

In 1792 the Vestry decided to paint the new church as 
follows ; the roof Spanish brown, the sides a light stone 
color, the window frames white, and the doors a mahogony 
color. 

Mr, Foote remained until he died, August i, 1793, and 
was buried in the old church burying ground. 

After him came the Rev. John Jackson Sands, called on 
December 5, 1793. During his term, two important events 
took place. On January 26, 1794, without any reason now 
known, the Vestry " Resolved that the Church should be 
called CJirisfs Church, Peter Jay to get the seal for the 
Vestry and to get such a one as he thinks fit." Early in 
1794, the parsonage house, then on the west side of the 
Brook, was burned, and in May, 1794, the Church purchased 



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for ^400, from Isaac Doughty, his house and land, which 
is now known as the " Old Parsonage " property. 

The house, which has been added to from time to time, 
was used as a rectory until 1864; since then it has been 
rented, and this land is now a valuable part of the church 
property. 

On September 11, 1794, " Mr. Peter Jay made the Church 
a present of a Seal," a representation of which is upon the 
invitations for to-day. This seal was adopted as the corpo- 
rate seal on the subsq uent reincorporation of the Church, 
and is still its seal. 

The administration of Mr. Sands not being entirely sat- 
isfactory, he resigned on May 4, 1796. On March 17, 1795, 
the Legislature passed " An Act for the relief of the Prot- 
estant Episcopal Church in the State of New York," which 
recited that the standing committee of the convention had 
represented that the act of 1784, before mentioned, for the 
general incorporation of religious societies, " directs a mode 
of incorporation which exposes it to a variety of difficulties, 
leaving the congregations not incorporated by Charter, to 
the alternative of foregoing the benefit of incorporation or 
submitting to an entire alteration and subversion of the 
usual and peculiar government of the respective congrega- 
tions of said Church," and providing for the incorporation 
of Episcopal churches. Although our Church was then 
existing under its charter of 1764, and might have con- 
tinued under it, as heretofore stated, for some reason not 
disclosed by the records, it was reincorporated under this 
act, at a meeting duly held for the purpose, on June 7, 1796, 
when the necessary formalities of the incorporation were 
complied with, Peter Jay and Isaac Purdy being elected 
wardens, and Joshua Purdy and John Haight, Thomas 
Brown, John Guion, Thomas Thomas, Gilbert Hatfield, 



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Jonathan Purdy and Nathaniel Purdy, vestrymen. Monday 
in Easter week was fixed for the annual election of the 
Vestry, and "the name and style by which the said church 
shall be known " was declared to be " CJirisfs Church at the 
Town of Rye, in the County of Westchester and State of Nezv 
York.'" This church still exists under this incorporation. 
The more usual name of " Christ Church " is frequently 
used, notable instances being the Bishop's certificate of the 
consecration of the present church and the brass tablet 
placed in 1874 in the vestibule. It will be noticed that the 
Vestry last mentioned includes four Purdys. This, how- 
ever, was not an unusual occurrence, for it happened in 
the case of at least ten of the old vestries, and in at least 
two others there were five gentlemen of this name, or one- 
half of the Vestry. In some years there were two persons 
named Jonathan Purdy in the same Vestry. 

On or about October 26, 1796, the Rev. George Ogilvie 
became rector, but he died in a few months, on April 3, 1797, 
and was buried in the old cemetery across the Brook. In this 
year, 1797, the Vestry adopted an elaborate set of rules for 
its meetings, one of them imposing fines of 8 shillings for 
unexcused absence and 4 shillings for being an hour late. 

The Rev. Samuel Haskell, who graduated at Yale Col- 
lege in 1790, appeared before the Vestry on August 7, 1797, 
and accepted their invitation to become rector and to receive 
the amounts subscribed for his salary for three years, with 
the parsonage and glebe land. At a vestry meeting on 
April 18, 1801, it being represented that Mr. Haskell had 
$750 in hand contributed by Trinity Church, it was re- 
solved that $20 be paid to Mr. Haskell "for his services 
in getting the aforesaid sum." Mr. Haskell resigned in 
April, 1801, and was followed by the Rev. Mr. Evan Rogers, 
born of Quaker parents and originally ordained a Methodist 



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clergyman, who accepted the Vestry's call on January i6, 
1802. He was to have, according to the records, $275 per 
year, with the parsonage land for three years, " for his 
religious performances as rector," and was not to be bound 
to attend at White Plains, as none of the subscription for 
his salary had been raised from that quarter. He was a 
man of deep piety, and seems to have been very highly es- 
teemed. Among the old papers of the Church is the follow- 
ing verse by him : 

" Read Scripture once and you can read no more, 
For all books else appear so mean, so poor, 
Verse will seem proes; but still persist to read 
And Scripture will be all the books you need, 

E. Rogers, 

Feb. 6, 1806." 

Mr. Rogers seems to have been also a very energetic 
and useful man. He acted as Clerk of the Vestry, and, in 
1804, by their direction, wrote out in a fair, neat hand the 
minutes of the Vestry for several previous years. Appar- 
ently, he acted also as sexton for a time, for, in May, 1806, 
the Vestry allowed him "$io for this yccir for his care in 
opening, clensing and dressing the Church." At the annual 
election in 1807, two persons "were chosen clerks of the 
Church the ensuing year, for the purpose of leading in sing- 
ing in Church." 

In Mr. Rogers's time there was friction between Rye 
and White Plains with respect to the services of the Rector 
at White Plains and the amount to be raised by that part 
of the Parish. This was compromised on April 11, 1805, 
by an arrangement that the White Plains people should 
have the "services of the clergyman in proportion to the 
amounts they shall raise by subscription for that purpose." 
At the next annual election, however, a resident of White 
Plains was defeated for warden, and he and four others 



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from that town declined to serve as vestrymen. It was 
afterwards, in 1808, arranged that the Rector should preach 
in White Plains one-third of the time. 

Mr. Rogers died here on January 25, 1809, "extremely 
lamented," according to his tombstone in the cemetery near 
Milton. 

In 1809 Mr. Haskell was called again by the Vestry, and 
about September of that year, was formally installed rector. 
He met with success in his ministry, which lasted until his 
resignation, in May, 1823. Under him the Parish, then 
commonly called the Parish of Rye and White Plains, 
flourished and increased. In 1809 the pews in the church 
were altered and rearranged and an annual ground rent 
imposed upon them. In 1810 the Vestry discussed the pro- 
posals of Peter J. Munroe and John P. Delancey to erect an 
Episcopal church at Mamaroneck, and in 181 1 the Vestry 
considered the subject of building a chapel at Rye Neck ; 
but these matters were, in each case, postponed without any 
action of the Vestry. On April 12, 18 14, however, the 
present church at Mamaroneck was incorporated, and on 
June 8, 181 5, the Vestry resolved that it was expedient to 
dissolve the connection with White Plains, and thus our old 
parish was cut down to the limits of the town of Rye. A 
chorister seems to have been first employed in 181 8. 

The Rev. William Thompson, an Irishman, was called 
on October i, 1823, and devotedly served a loving con- 
gregation until his death, August 26, 1830. There is a 
marble tablet to his memory in the vestibule of the present 
church. In 1824, during his term, services were held every 
third Sunday at the school-house, in Saw Pits, now Port 
Chester. The minutes of the Vestry for the period between 
October i, 1828, and April 23, 1832, are missing. 

The Rev. John M. Forbes was rector in 1830, and was 



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followed, in or prior to April, 1832, by the Rev. Will- 
iam M. Carmichael, who served until his resignation on 
July 23, 1834. Mr. Carmichael graduated at Hamilton 
College in 1826, originally became a Presbyterian minister, 
but afterwards entered our Church, Rye being his first 
parish charge. He had several other parishes ; was the 
author of a number of religious books and pamphlets, and 
died June 7, 188 r, being then a Doctor of Divinity and the 
oldest presbyter of the Diocese of Long Island. In 1832 
Mr. James D. Halsted, for many years a vestryman, served 
as secretary, treasurer and chorister. 

The Rev. Peter S. Chauncey began his rectorship in 
September, 1834, with the understanding that the parish 
duties required of him should be a sermon on every Sunday 
morning, on funeral occasions and on fasts and festivals, 
the remaining portion of his time to be employed as he 
thought proper. For the first two years he preached also 
at Mamaroneck and afterwards at Saw Pits. 

We first learn of an organ in the church, when the Vestry, 
on December 3, 1838, voted to raise $50 for an organist, 
and in 1839 James Barker gave to the Church, for a bury- 
ing ground, thi'ee acres of land in the front part of what is 
now Greenwood Union Cemetery. A new bell for the 
church was purchased in 1842. At a meeting held on May 
23, 1843, a committee of five was appointed to build a 
chapel at Port Chester and present it to the Vestry, to be 
attached to the Church as a chapel. This chapel was ac- 
cordingly, built upon land given by William Adee, and at a 
vestry meeting on July 12, 1844, " Mr. William L. Bush, 
on behalf of the building committee of St. Peter's Chapel, 
Port Chester, presented to the Vestry a deed for said chapel 
and the ground on which it stands, the deed being a joint 
one from William Adee, Esq., who generously gave the 



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ground," and the building committee. The Vestry then ac- 
cepted the chapel to be attached to the Church. In 1846 
the Church, in order to pay some indebtedness, sold its 
glebe land, comprising about 18 acres, on the west side of 
the Brook, for $90 per acre, reserving the old cemetery 
therein and a right of way thereto, and in 1847 the land 
east of the Brook, on which the first parsonage stood, was 
also sold. Of the Rev. Mr. Chaunce}', it is said in Dr. 
Baird's " History of Rye " : " His graceful manners and dig- 
nified bearing, his accessibility, his vivacity, ever tempered 
with the gravity which became his sacred office, won upon 
the old and upon the young, whilst his impassioned oratory 
engaged all hearts, more especially those of the young." 
On January 13, 1848, the Vestry adopted resolutions of 
eulogy expressing " the regret, not only of his own congre- 
gation, but of this whole community" and accepted the 
resignation of Mr. Chauncey, to take effect on February i, 
1848. On leaving, he presented to the Church a silver com- 
munion cup, as an expression of his sincere affection and a 
memorial of his long ministry. A fine oil portrait of Mr. 
Chauncey, recently presented to the church, now hangs in 
our vestry room. 

The Rev. Edward C. Bull next followed as Rector 
from May 13, 1849, ^o May i, 1859, resigning on account of 
ill health. In his time, the old wooden church built in 
1788 was replaced by a stone building consecrated March 
15, 1855, by Bishop Wainwright. In 1852, St. Peter's 
Chapel at Port Chester was incorporated as St. Peter's 
Church, and the land upon which it stood was released to 
it by our Church. The widow of Mr. Bull has recently 
had painted for and presented to the Church an oil portrait 
of her husband, which has been also hung in the vestry 
room. 



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The Rev. John C. White was next called on May 5, 
1859, ^^^ served until his resignation on April i, 1864. 

This completes the list of our rectors who have passed 
away — twenty in all, ten of whom finished their earthly 
labors and were buried here. The longest terms of service 
were those of Mr. Wetmore, nearly thirty-four years; Mr. 
Haskell, nearly eighteen years, and Mr. Chauncey, nearly 
fourteen years. 

The other rectors, all of whom are now living, are the 
Rev. Reese F. Alsop, from November, 1864, to April, 1873 ; 
the Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster, who came to this, his first 
parish, in June, 1873, and resigned on February 12, 
1882; the Rev. Walter Mitchell, here from April, 1882, to 
April, 1886, and our present rector, who began his able, 
energetic and successful work in January, 1887. Of these 
men, all of great ability and all of the highest rank in their 
calling, this Parish feels justly proud. It is an honor to 
have had them with us. Mr. Brewster and Dr. Alsop, each 
of whom left Rye in obedience to a call to a larger field of 
usefulness, by a happy coincidence are now presiding over 
large and influential adjoining parishes in Brooklyn, both 
doing noble work for the Church. Mr. Mitchell, for many 
years well known as a profound scholar and an accom- 
plished writer in prose and verse, resigned to devote him- 
self to literary work. Of our present Rector, his works 
speak for him. The flourishing condition of this Parish is 
his best eulogium. 

On December 21, 1866, the stone church was burned; 
and the present edifice, erected on its site, was consecrated 
on June 19, 1869, by Bishop Horatio Potter. The present 
Sunday school or parish building was built by generous 
subscriptions of members of the parish in 1893, and replaces 
the less commodious one built about thirty years ago. 



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Through the generosity of a member of the Parish, the 
vestry room was enlarged in 1893, and to another are we 
indebted for the new clock and chimes recently placed in the 
tower. The Church has had many generous gifts, from time 
to time in its history, all of which have been most appro- 
priate and useful and most heartily appreciated by the con- 
gregation. Besides the marble tablet to the Rev. Mr. 
Thompson, among other memorials in the church are 
marble tablets to the Rev. Mr. Chauncey, and to Mr. 
David Brown, for many years associated with the Church 
as vestryman and warden ; a metal tablet to Dr. John 
Clarkson Jay, for twenty-eight years a warden and one of 
the benefactors of the Church ; windows in loving memory 
of Miss Sarah Adams Bulkley and Mrs. Chauncey B. 
Brewster ; a font presented by the late Mrs. Hay ward in 
memory of her daughter, and the tile flooring of the chancel 
given by Mr. John H. Hay ward and his sister, Mrs. 
Augustus M. Halsted, in memory of their mother. Our 
organ was a recent gift from the late Mrs. George W. 
Quintard. We have also communion silver presented by 
Mrs. Mary Jay in 1818, and two quaint copper alms basins, 
given by James Meadows in 1769, which were used this 
morning. As stated before, the present church stands on 
the site of the first church built in 1706, but the original 
grounds have been enlarged by additions made from time 
to time. The new rectory was completed in 1878 through 
generous contributions of money and land. Among our 
many causes for rejoicing to-day, is the fact that the Parish 
is out of debt, and, besides the church grounds and rectory 
and old parsonage properties, it also owns Grace Chapel (so 
named in 1877) with its site at Milton, the building given by 
the late Richard B. Chapman, and the land by the late 
Gerrit Hubert Van Wagenen, the last Clerk of the Vestry. 



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The existence of the Parish has thus been of four kinds. 
First, under the act of 1693 and supplementary acts, the 
justices each year issued their warrant for the election by 
the freeholders, in Januar}^ of the wardens and vestrymen ; 
the justices and vestry then met, fixed the amounts neces- 
sary to be raised for the minister and for the care of the 
poor; for the Clerk of the Vestry usually £1 per year; for 
the beating of the drum also ^i per year ; and for the ex- 
pense of collection ; then apportioned the total among the 
towns of the parish, fixing the amount or quota for each 
town, and imposed the necessary tax to raise the total, 
which tax was collected by the constables. The wardens 
had the custody and disbursement of the funds. If a town 
did not pay its quota, the wardens sued the constable 
charged with the duty of collecting it. This form of gov- 
ernment continued until the Revolution. The vestry 
records of the early days are very quaint and interesting, 
showing in detail in each year the amounts raised and the 
method of collection and the disposition thereof. There 
was usually a parish clerk who gave out or " tuned " the 
Psalms and led the responses at service, and sometimes also 
acted as drummer. The drum was evidently ver}'' effect- 
ually beaten, as we find that a new one was purchased 
nearly every year, that bought in 1728, costing 28 shillings. 
The Justices and Vestry in the olden time, usually met at 
some house in Rye. In later years the vestry meetings were 
held in the different towns of the parish. On one occasion, 
the Vestry adjourned to 9 a. m. on a certain day, and 
" ordered dinner on the table " at i P. M. There are many 
curious minutes of charges paid for the poor, such as an 
allowance of 12 shillings lor " doctor's stuff " for a sick per- 
son ; 2 shillings "for yi gallon of rum for ye Burin of 
Patrick Holiday " and " to Doctor John Smith for doctor 



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ing Francis Parker £'^, if cured by the first day of May 
next, if not then cured, then to have but ^"3-10." 

In 1775, the Justices and Vestry agreed that the poor of 
the parish " should be sett at vendue to the highest bidder 
-;:- -;:- * ^ivid that the Clerk of the Vestry publish adver- 
tisement for the same," which was done, as appears by this 
entry, "then put the poor to sale which w^as struck ofi as 
foUoweth, John McClery to John Lawrence for 6-15 " and 
others to different persons for various prices. 

This method of disposing of the poor was really to let 
the contract for the care of each person so struck off, to the 
bidder who offered to care for such poor person for the 
lowest sum. On one occasion, the Vestry " voted a letter to 
be wrote and sent to Mr. Rettner desiring him to attend at 
the church and give us a sermon for tryal and to be en- 
gaged if approved." He either declined to put himself thus 
on exhibition or was not approved. At one time, a rector 
was tried before the Vestry on charges made against him, 
he, himself, presiding at the trial. Witnesses were called 
and testified on both sides, those for the prosecution declar- 
ing that the accused had been " disguised with liquor " on 
several occasions, one of them being a wedding ; " that his 
conversation was insipid," and that, after the wedding, " he 
proposed to run horses * * '- gave the word ' go ' and 
started his horse [andj rode hard." The witnesses for the 
defence stated that the}^ had never seen him in liquor, that 
his company was agreeable, and one said that he had 
" pressed " the accused " to drink with him and he had re- 
fused." The presiding officer and accused person then 
stated that there seemed to be some dissatisfaction with 
him and offered to resign, which offer was accepted, he, 
doubtless, putting the question himself. At the meetings of 
the Vestry in the last century it was often called "this 



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House " and frequently instead of adjourning, they " broke 
up " their meeting. 

The second kind of organization was the temporary one, 
after the Revolution, with trustees, for the years 1785, 1786 
and 1787. The third was when the Vestry organized and 
acted from 1788 to 1796, under the charter of 1764; and 
the fourth is the present corporation, organized in June 
1796 and now existing, under the act of 1795 and its 
amendments. 

Many good and distinguished men have honored our 
Church and themselves by service as wardens and vestry- 
men, and much of interest might be said of them if time 
permitted. Among them were Roger Park, Peter Jay, 
John A. Dix and Benjamin Loder, and, of more recent 
times, John C. Jay, Edward Schell and James M. Ives. Of 
Mr. Ives, it is especially fitting that we should pay a pass- 
ing tribute to his memory so dear to us all, as he was one 
of the committee appointed to take charge of this celebra- 
tion, in which no one took a deeper and more genume 
interest, and to day, we greatly miss his genial presence 
and ever-ready and effective advice and aid. 

In our rejoicings for the long life and prosperity which 
have been granted to our old Church, we do not forget our 
sister, or rather daughter, parishes, and our neighbors 
of all denominations who have likewise enjoyed and are 
now happy in their well-merited success, and to each and 
all of them we extend a joyful and cordial welcome and 
our congratulations, and, in the future, for them all, as well 
as ourselves, we pray for the blessing and help of God. 

The Chairman.— The Rev. Dr. Tatlock, Irom the 
Diocese of Connecticut, has consented to say a few words 
to us. 



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Address of the Rev. William Tatlock, D. D. 

I appreciate very cordially the courtesy of this invita- 
tion. I suppose that I am selected to make the first of 
these informal addresses from the fact that Stamford parish 
— although I suspect the fact is not known to most of you — 
is the oldest daughter of Rye parish, and the few words I 
shall say to you will touch the point simply of the relation 
of Rye parish to the foundation and the earl}^ growth of the 
Church in Connecticut. 

All through Connecticut during the Puritan regime, 
there were men belonging to the Church of England 
warmly attached to its services and quite restive under the 
intolerance of the Puritan government. Some of these 
were in the towns of Stamford and Greenwich. The his- 
toriographer of the afternoon has rightly said that the Rev. 
George Muirson was practically the first rector of this 
parish. He came in the beginning of August, 1705, ten 
years after the organization of the parish, and was ap- 
pointed under the mandate of Lord Cornbury, the royal 
Governor of New York, to be its rector. But before De- 
cember, within four months after he came to Rye, he 
had diffused— it has been said here that one character- 
istic of the parish of Rye has been its diffusiveness — he 
had diffused himself, not only through the neighboring 
towns, which were properly part of his cure, but also 
through the neighboring towns in Connecticut. And he 
reports, in one of his letters to the Society for the Propaga- 
tion of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, that a number of 
Church folk in Stamford and Greenwich were in the habit 
of going over and attending his services in Rye, and that 
he went over into these places and held services there also, 
and he lamented, in one of his letters, that so few of the 
Church people there were communicants and that so many 
of them were unbaptized. 



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In April, 1706, Lord Cornbury issued his warrant to 
Mr. Miiirson to go into the neighboring colony of Con- 
necticut, particularly to the towns of Stamford, Stratford 
and Hartford, to administer baptism to such persons as had 
not been willing to receive it from any but ordained minis- 
ters of the Church of England. He did not, however, get as 
far as Hartford. 

Now, in reading the history of the Church, we find that 
Stratford was the seed-bed of churchmanship in Connecti- 
cut, but the earliest church services were held in Stam- 
ford. Mr. Muirson set out on this missionary incursion 
into the domain of Puritanism under the escort of Col. 
Caleb Heathcote, "fully armed," for the protection of the 
Church of England parson, and, of course, he could not get 
to Stratford without passing through Stamford. There is 
a record somewhere of his holding service and baptizing 
twenty persons in the towns of Stamford and Greenwich. 
He went on then to Stratford, and the histor}- of the 
planting of the church in Stratford, with its sequel in that 
memorable incident of the dispute in Yale College Librar_y 
between the Churchmen and the Puritans of the time — I say 
that incident was an outgrowth of the visit of Muirson to 
the towns of Stamford and Stratford under Lord Cornbury's 
warrant. 

It was in 1722 that Mr. Pigott, the rector of Stratford 
at that time — for Stratford was organized into a parish 
probably before Stamford was, though, as I have said, the 
earliest services held in Connecticut were held in Stamford 
— Mr. Pigott, the then Rector of Stratford, was largely in- 
strumental in guiding the thought and reading of Samuel 
Johnson, of Wetmore — James Wetmore, who afterwards 
became the Rector of Rye — and other prominent Congrega- 
tional ministers, into such channels that it resulted in their 



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coming into the Church of England and taking Holy 
-Orders therein. 

So that you see the influence of this parish of Rye has 
not been confined to its own borders, nor to the towns 
which were originally included in the parish. It has had 
its share in moulding what I suppose may be called, prop- 
erly and fairly, the strongest diocese of the Church in the 
United States, relatively to population. Its influence, there- 
fore, is fitly acknowledged this afternoon by myself as the 
representative, not simply of the parish of Stamford, which 
gratefully acknowledges its indebtedness for its early min- 
istrations *o the parish of Rye, but as a representative also 
of the diocese of Connecticut. 

The Chairman.— Next probably, in point of time to 
Stamford is Bedford. We have with us the Rev. Lea Lu- 
quer, the present Rector of that parish. 

Address of the Rev. Lea Luquer. 

Two days before I received a formal invitation from the 
Vestry to attend this celebration, I had a note from my 
friend, the Rector of this church, asking me to be present as 
the representative of Bedford, a daughter parish. I beg 
leave to correct my brother and remind him that Bedford 
is not a daughter parish, but a sister parish. It formed 
part of the original precinct of Rye, Mamaroneck and Bed- 
ford. That act of 1693, under which the Province of New 
York was divided into church precincts, was a very singu- 
lar act. It was suggested to the Assembly by Governor 
Fletcher, an ardent Churchman, an Englishman, who de- 
sired very strongly to establish the English Church in the 
Province of New York. He was appointed Governor a 
few months after the Leisler disturbance in the city — I will 
not call it a rebellion, because Leisler thought he had a 



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ri^ht to assume the reins of government — he was unjustly 
condemned and hung. You can imagine there was a very 
strong party feeling in New York, the city then embrac- 
ing the Dutch, the Huguenots, the French, Portuguese and 
very few English. It was a cosmopolitan city at that time ; 
eighteen languages were spoken in the city, small as it was 
then, for it embraced not more than five or six thousand 
people. New York, two hundred years ago, was bounded on 
the north by the stockade in Wall street, where stood two 
stone bastions to guard it. New York only extended that 
far in those days, and Governor Fletcher, with the advice 
of Heathcote, determined to establish the English Church 
in this community, where there were so ver}^ few members 
of the Church of England. He met with decided opposi- 
tion. Col. Morris writes in 171 1 to the secretary of the 
venerable Society for the Propagation of the gospel, " The 
Act to settle the Church [this Act of 1693] is very loosely 
worded, which, as things stood then, when it was made, 
could not be avoided, the Dissenters themselves claiming 
the benefit of it as well as we, and the act will admit of a 
construction in their favor as well as ours. They think 
it was intended for them and them only." And in 
this very communication he continues, " I believe the 
Church at this day would have been in a much better con- 
dition had there been no act in her favor, for, in the Jerseys, 
m Pennsylvania, where there is no act in her favor, there 
are four times the number of churchmen than there is in 
the Province of New York, and they are so, most of them, 
on principle." 

That province of New Jersey was under a Roman 
Catholic governor. 

The Church of England could not grow in this country 
until it was separated from the State. The growth of our 



Church properly dates from the Revolutionary War, when 
we were freed from th.e State Government and became 
members of this Church on principle. 

In this Vestry, chosen in 1693, there w^ere two repre- 
sentatives from Bedford, and in Bedford this act met with 
decided resistance. There was one Zachariah Roberts, a jus- 
tice of the peace, who swore he would burn every prayer 
book and drive out of town every one who tried to use it; 
and you can imagine what opposition the Church had to en- 
counter there. They manifested this opposition because the 
prayer book was to them the symbol of a hierarchy, under 
whose tyranny they had suffered in England. I belong to 
this Church not because it is the English Church, but be- 
cause it is the American Church — the Catholic Church. 
We have a service that we love, made up of prayers that 
have been in use for hundreds of years before the Refor- 
mation. We have a historical episcopate that can go far 
back before the time of the Reformation, and we love this 
Church. We respect its government, for it is a representa- 
tive government. The laity have a voice in the election 
of their ministers and their bishop, and we can see the grow- 
ing power of this Church since it is no longer connected 
with the State. 

I am here, as the Rector of Bedford Church, to congratu- 
late you upon your prosperity under God's blessing, and, as 
I heard the grand and inspiring music, I could not help won- 
dering what those Dissenters would have said, two hundred 
years ago, if they had heard the praises of God sung as we 
have heard them to-day. 

The Chairman. — We come now to introduce to you 
three of the latest rectors of your parish. They do not 
need introduction. They are too well remembered, too 
highly honored, too dearly loved, to be forgotten. 



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It happened when I first came to be Rector of White 
Plains that the Rev. Mr. Alsop was the Rector of Rye. I 
shall never forget his kindly greeting or his gracious cour- 
tesy, and it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you, not 
your old leader, but your late Rector, the Rev. Dr. Alsop, 
Archdeacon of Brooklyn. 

Address of the Rev. Reese F. ALSor, D. D. 

I need not tell those of you who knew me when I was 
Rector of this Church, that it gives me pleasure to be here. 
It always gives me pleasure to be in Rye, and it always 
gives me added pleasure to be in this church. 

It is sometimes said that we do not recognize our good 
days when they are passing over us, or when we are passing 
through them. It was not so with me. I look back now 
to the eight years I spent in Rye as almost my halcyon 
days, and 1 knew then that they were. When I listened to 
a call to another field in the smok}^ city of Pittsburg, where 
I hoped I should be able to do a larger work among the 
working people, I felt, and I said to some of my friends here, 
that I realized that I was leaving behind me the more 
pleasant work to strike into the harder. I know now that 
I said the truth. This church is to me more than dear. I 
watched its every stone. I saw every beam put in place. 
From the time that the foundations were begun, up to the 
time when the top of the steeple was put in place, I was 
here almost every day, watching it, interested in it, rejoicing 
in it, and delighted when it was finished. It was my privilege 
as the Rector to be here when it was consecrated, and I look 
at it to-day, made more beautiful by interior decorations, 
but still practically the same church, and, if I dare make 
such a remark, I should say that I should be content to have 
no other monument. Yet it took the place of a very beau- 



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tiful building-, and, perhaps, the most vivid memory of my 
rectorship is the destruction of that former building. It, too, 
was a stone church, the third building of the Parish. I 
never shall forget when I first saw its picture. Two men 
whose memory is blessed, who are among the benefactors 
and supporters of this church, John C. Jay and Benjamin 
Loder, appeared in my little parish in Massachusetts one 
very rainy day. They listened to my )'oung lucubrations in 
the morning and in the evening, and, after the evening 
service, they came into the vestry room. They told me they 
were a committee from Christ's Church, Rye, appointed 
with power to call a rector, and they extended to me the 
call. I remember it was with a peculiar pleasure that Dr. 
Jay took out of his pocket a little photograph of the church, 
and said, " There is the church," believing that the sight of 
that building, such a beautiful and appropriate stone church, 
would have no little influence in deciding me that I would 
better come. 

When I came, there was some debt remaining on the 
church, and, I think it was the second year that T was here, 
a movement was made to remove the debt, and without any 
very great endeavor, the money was raised and the debt 
paid. Then, as the church had stood a number of years, it 
was decided we should beautify it and put it in perfect 
order. The organ had stood in the west galler}^ and an 
addition to the north of the chancel was built. The organ 
was moved down, the woodwork all through the church 
was varnished, and everything was put in perfect order. 

It was just before Christmas time, and I remember, as I 
stood in the aisle, just as the sun was sinking and the light 
came through the western window, I looked through the 
church, and said, ' What a beautiful, what an almost ideal, 
little church this is." I made that remark to some one 



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standing by me. That evening we were gathered, quite a 
company, dressing the church for Christmas, when, all at 
once, a gentleman appeared at the door and cried, " The 
church is on fire !" In three minutes it was demonstrated 
that it would be impossible to extinguish it, and the word 
was given, " Save what you can of the furniture!" In a 
little while we stood outside, and in the clear, cold winter 
night we saw the church burn. The next morning there 
were only the ruins. We, fortunately, had our Sunday- 
school building, to which we adjourned, and there we held 
our services and in part existed for the next nine or twelve 
months. 

In the meantime, funds were gathered to rebuild, and 
we succeeded, by God's blessing, in putting the present 
church here, and I want to congratulate those who were 
working with me at the time, upon the success of that effort 
and the success which has followed the church in all its his- 
tory since. 

The Chairman. — The next Rector in course of time, 
is the present Rector of Grace Church, Brooklyn. I think 
the unkindest thought— and I suppose the congregation of 
Rye really sympathizes in this thought— the unkindest 
thought we have ever had of him was, perhaps, faulting him 
for leaving the diocese and the rectorship of Rye. We al- 
ways esteemed him highly and have missed him since he left. 
I introduce to you the Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster, of 
Brooklyn. 

Address of the Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster. 

As I listened to the interesting and able history read by 
the Clerk of the Vestry, I could not help thinking how much 
history, after all, there was that could not be told in any 
words. I could not help thinking that there was not merely 



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the history of the institution, not merely the history of the 
fabric of this outward material, but how much history of 
the personal that could never be put into words. 

Standing here to day, memories throng upon me of cer- 
tain later chapters in that long story, chapters which I was 
more familiar with, the dear, the brief, the forever remem- 
bered. What memories crowd upon me of those whom we 
can see no more ; the serene saint, the radiant maiden, 
young men in their strength, men full of years and honors, 
little children, all one with us in the communion of saints. 
" Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, even so saith 
the spirit, for they rest from their labors "; and their works, 
what they did, and what God did through them and by 
them, are this day had in remembrance, the noble works 
that God did in their days and in the old time before them. 

But I turn from such thoughts and to you who still are 
here. To the Rector, Wardens and Vestrymen of this Parish, 
mother of saints, mother of parishes, I beg to express my 
heartiest congratulations upon this anniversary and upon 
your prosperity, a prosperity which has never been exceeded 
in all the long history of this Parish. 

I well remember, on the occasion of my first visit to Rye, 
that the then clerk of the vestry seemed to think that the 
greatest sights he could show me were the places here and 
there where the old rectors were buried. I got a general 
impression that old rectors were strewn all about this 
region. But, my friends, 1 congratulate you all upon the 
fact that, certainly to-day, you have a live rector! He calls 
himself " venerable," and yet, out of all the long list of 
rectors, I believe he is the youngest of us all ! And it 
seems to me that he is a kind of parable of this Parish. 
This Parish, too, is venerable and yet with strength still 
equal to the time, venerable, as on this day, with the 



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majesty of centuries upon her, and yet her natui'al force not 
abated, bringing forth fruit in her age and, in these latter 
days, even renewing her youth. 

In these moments of reminiscence, there comes to me 
what was said to me by an aged man whom many of you 
knew and revered, long a warden of this Parish. He was 
a plain farmer, and he one day said to me, in the unconscious 
poetry of a homely figure, that to hear the church bell was 
like the sound of the dinner horn borne to the ears of a 
hungry man away in the field. May many, many come 
here in the time to come, as in the days that are past, 
hungering and thirsting, and here find the bread of life and 
the water of life. What has not this Parish been to souls in 
all these years of the past ! What, by God's blessing, may 
this Parish be to souls in the time to come! I pray 
that this fair house of the Lord standing, as that of old in 
Jerusalem, on its unmoved hill of rock, wnth its spire rising 
in sight of all the country round, bearing aloft the cross to 
tell of the Saviour's love and point men upward, long may 
be here a land-mark. May this house of God be to 
many sons and daughters of men a dear and precious home, 
a central spot for their affections and their lives ! Hither, 
in the time to come, may many hearts yearn with a tender 
and holy home-sickness ! And hither, as the years shall 
roll on into other centuries, may the tribes come up, even 
the tribes of the Lord, to testify and give thanks unto the 
name of the Lord ! 

The Chairman. — I am sure this day, in its celebration, 
would be quite incomplete if we did not hear a word in 
closing from the present Rector of this venerable Parish. 
Two hundred years ago, and in the after history, we were 
mdebted to the Church of England for many a blessing, for 
the blessing of the gospel ; and in the present Rector, able, 



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wise and vigorous, we are indebted again to the Ciiurch of 
England, who, among the other things she has given us, is 
a true missionary spirit in the ministry of the word. We 
are proud, if I may use that word, in the Diocese of New 
York, of my good brother, whom this Parish has honored, 
and who honors this Parish, in this vigorous rectorship. 
The clergy are at one in wishing him joy to-day, and even 
larger fruitage than he has had so far in his rectorship, in 
material advantages, and, better still, in the fruitage of 
souls for Christ. 

We do want to hear a word from Dr. Kirkby before we 
leave the Parish. 

Address of the Ven. Archdeacon William W. 
Kirkby, D.D. 

My Dear Brethren,— It need only be a few words 
that I say to you this afternoon. You can well imagine 
how filled with joy my heart is, and how, out of that fulness, 
the tongue would fain speak. But, at this late hour, my 
words must be few. 

The first thought must surely be that of gratitude to 
God for all his goodness in the past, and to-day. A quarter 
of a century of life in the wilderness would not seem to be 
an apt preparation for the charge of such a parish as this. 
Yet the same gracious help given to me there has been con- 
tinued here ; and ungrateful would it be in me, not to 
acknowledge His great, loving kindness. One has only to 
follow the leadings of God's providence to find himself in 
the right place and happy. 

Next, I would respectfully and warmly thank the Bishop 
for his helpful presence with us this morning, and for the 
kind words he then said. Thanks are due also to the Arch- 
deacon, the visiting clergy and others who are with us this 



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afternoon. We will not quarrel with Mr. Luquer as to 
whether Bedford should be called a "sister" or a 
" daughter " parish. Rather would I thank him and the 
other brethren for the words of loving sympathy so kindly 
spoken. 

We have heard a good deal, this afternoon, of the • 
Puritan element in this County and in this Parish. We do 
well to remember this one fact, that the Church of England 
was the pioneer in this land. Wherever the Government 
sent an expedition, there the Church sent her priest. In 
this way, the Church lead the way in Virginia, in Massa- 
chusetts, the Carolinas, and even on the western coast. 
Then came the great disaster in England, the Church and 
the Government fell together. The triumph of the Puritans 
was complete. It was their day of opportunity and they 
wisely pushed their conquests as far as possible. The 
poor Church and her missions were in abeyance. But, 
during this time, there were doubtless many clergymen of 
the Church in the country and hereabouts. Some of these 
may have held occasional services in this Parish before 
1695, and between that time and the settlement of the first 
rector here in 1705. 

We have heard to-day a good deal said of New York, 
and have been told that two hundred years ago, it was a 
very small place. Yet two hundred and twenty years ago, 
lived there a governer who, in his day, called it an ancient 
city. Dates and ages are apt to confuse one. Two hundred 
years is a long time in the life of this country. It is worth 
thinking about in the age of England. Two hundred years 
would take us back nearly to the time of the great fire and 
plague of London ; and quite to the time of the building 
St. Paul's Cathedral and the founding of the Bank of 
England. We are accustomed to think of these things 



being done ages ago, and yet they are but as old as this 
Parish. When Sir Christopher Wren was building that 
mother church of England, this Parish was formed. To 
some of the young men here, I have put this question, 
suppose one of the elected vestrymen in 1695 had placed 
one dollar that year in the newly formed Bank of England 
and left it to grow there at compound interest, how much 
would the amount be to-da}^ ? The answer has not come, 
and I am not able to tell myself. My thought is that it 
would be over a million dollars, so great is the power of 
littles. 

I am ready and willing to-day, to give twenty-five to be 
invested in a similar way until it shall reach a sum suf- 
ficiently large to endow the organistship of this church, 
unless some generous man here now should think the time 
for this small sum to grow will be too long, and so hasten 
it by a gift of -fl 10,000. That would be a grand finish to the 
interesting services of this memorable day. God grant 
that it may come to us, and I have faith to believe it will. 
This done, the Vestry would always be able to maintain a 
first-class choir. With such an organ, we ought to have an 
able man to have charge of the music. I have now only to 
offer my sincere thanks to the Organist, Choir and to all 
who have in any way contributed their share in making the 
happiness of the day so great. And, as we began, so let 
our thought and gratitude go to Him from whom are all 
blessings. May we all realize our stewardship and be faith- 
ful in His service. I thank you all very much for your 
attendance here to-day. 



appcnbtr* 



IRectors of tbe parisb of IR^e, 

Thomas Pritchard, April, 1704, to 1705; died. 

George Muirson, July 31, 1705, to October 12, 1708; died. 

Christopher Bridge, October 17, 1710, to May 22, I7i9;died, 

Robert Jenney, June 7, 1722, to May 19, 1726; resigned. 

James Wltmore, June 7, 1726, to May 15, 1760; died. 

Ebenezer Punderson, November 21, 1763, to September 22, 1764; died. 

Ephraim Avery, September 9, 1765, to November 5, 1776; died. 

Richard C. Moore, September 5, 1787, to October i, 17S8; resigned. 

David Footk, December 15, 1790, to August- 1, 1793; died. 

John Jackson Sands, December 5, 1793, to May 4, 1796; resigned, 

George Ogilvie, October 26, 1796, to April 3, 1797; died. 

Samuel Haskell, August 7, 1797, to April, 1801; resigned. 

Evan Rogers, January 16, 1802, to January 25, 1809; died. 

Samuel Haskell, February 25, 1809, to May, 1823; resigned. 

William Thompson, October i, 1823, to August 26, 1830; died. 

John M. Forbes, 1830— 1831; resigned. 

William M. Carmichael, 1832, to July 23, 1834; resigned. 

Peter S. Chauncey, September 8, 1834, to February i, 1848; resigned. 

Edward C. Bull, May 13, 1849, to May i, 1859; resigned. 

John Campbell White, May 5, 1859, to April i, 1864; resigned. 

Reese F. Alsop, November 27, 1864, to April, 1873; resigned. 

Chauncey B. Brewster, June, 1873, to February 12, 1882; resigned. 

Walter Mitchell, April, 1882, to April 28, 1886 ; resigned. 

William W. Kirkby, Januiry i, 1887; Now Rector. 



Clerics ot the Destry. 



Joseph Cleator, 1710-1720. 

John Carhartt, 1721-1743. 

Samuel Purdy, 1744-1753. 

Job Hadden, 1753. 

Gilbert Bloomer, 1754-1761 ; 1763-1775, 

Timothy Wetmore, 1762; 1776. 

William Miller, 1785-1787. 

Richard C. Moore, 17S8. 

Jesse Hunt, 1788, 1789. 

EzRAHiAH Wetmore, 1790 ; 1794-1796. 

David Foote, 1791-1793. 

Isaac Sniffen, 1797-1806. 

Evan Rogers, 1807, 1808. 

David Rogers, Jr., 1809, 1810; 1812-1816. 

William T. Provoost, 1811 ; 1817; 1820-1822. 

William Bush, 1818, 1819. 

Henry L. Penfield, 1823-1828. 

James D. Halsted, 1832, 1833; 1835-1845. 

Read Peck, 1834; 1849-1851. 

John Brooks, 1846-1848. 

William R. Talbot, 1852-1854. 

George R. A. Ricketts, 1855-1857. 

Augustus Wiggin, 1858-1864. 

Benjamin S. Olmstead, 1864-1868. 

Edward D. Webb, 1869-1872. 

Gerrit H. Van Wagenen, 1873-1892. 

Thomas T. Sherman, 1893-1895— Now Clerk. 



treasurers. 



Jesse Hunt, 1791. 

James D. Halsted, 1S32. 

Jesse Purdy, 1834. 

John H. Osborn, 1835-1839. 

James Stebbins, 1840-1845. 

John C. Jay, 1846, 1847 ; 1852-1866. 

Read Peck, 1848-1851. 

Robert S. Hayward, 1867-1874. 

Thomas B. Peck, 1875-1879. 

Le Grand N. Denslow, 1883. 

Clarence Sackett, 1887-1889. 

Augustus "Wiggin, 1880-1882 ; 1884-1886 ; 1890-1895 ; Noav Treasurer. 



1695. J hardens : George Lane, John Brondige. Vestrymen : Jonathan 
Hart, Joseph Horton, Joseph Purdy, Timothy Knapp, Hachaliah Brown, Thomas 
Merritt, Deliverance Brown, Isaac Denham. 

1696-1702. No Record. 

1703. IVardens : Colonel Caleb Heathcote, Justice Joseph Theall. Vesliy- 
men : Justice Joseph Purdy, Justice Mott, Captain Joseph Horton, Deliverance 
Brown, Hachaliah Brown, George Lane, Sr. , Thomas Purdy, Thomas Disbrow, 
Isaac Denham, Samuel Lane. 

1704-1710. No Record. 

1711. Wardens: Capt. Joseph Theall, Capt. Jonathan Hart, Cornelius 
Seely. Vestiymcn : Andrew Coe, John Merritt, Sr., Daniel Purdy, Cordwainer; 
Thomas Purdy, Thomas Merritt, Jr., George Lane, Jr., Joseph Lyon, George 
Kniffen, John Disbrow, Mamaroneck ; John Miller, Bedford. Clerk: Joseph 
Cleator. 

1712. Wardens: Capt. Joseph Budd, Justice Isaac Denham. Veshymen : 
John Haight, Thomas Merritt, Sr., John Frost, Robert Bloomer, Jonathan Haight, 
David Ogden, John Brundige, Joseph Cleator, John Disbrow, Mamaroneck ; 
John Miller, Bedford. Clerk : Joseph Cleator. 

1713. rF(7;-(/t'«j: John Brundige, Jonathan Miller. Ves/rymen: Andrew Coe. 
John Sloakham, Sr., Daniel Purdy, Sergt. ; George Lane, Jr., Nathan Kniffen, 
Thomas Purdy, Samuel Hunt, Nicholas Conkling, Nehemiah Palmer, John West- 
coate. Clerk : Joseph Cleator. 

1 7 14. Wardens: John Brundige, David Ogden. Veslrymen: John Haight, 
Nathaniel Sherwood, Thomas Merritt, Jr., Isaac Denham, Deliverance Brown, 
Jr., Ebenezer Theall, John Disbrow, of Rye; Daniel Lane, Stephen Clauson, 
Silvanus Palmer. Clerk : Joseph Cleator. 

1715. lldrdens : David Ogden, Moses Knapp. Vestrymen: Justice John 
Haight, Justice Isaac Denham, Ebenezer Theall, Thomas Merritt, Jr., Samuel 
Purdy, John Horton, Richard Ogden, Samuel Lane, Silvanus Palmer, Richard 
Westcoate. Clerk : Joseph Cleator. 

1716. Wardens : Moses Knapp, Jacob Haviland. J^estrymen : Caleb Hyatt, 
Samuel Lane, Daniel Purdy, Sr., Jacob Cornell, Robert Bloomer, Sr., John Dis- 
brow, of Rye; Sergt. Thomas Merritt, Sr., John Frost, Jonathan Miller, John 
Bloomer. Clerk : Joseph Cleator. 

17 17. Wardens: Jacob Haviland, Capt. Henry Disbrow. Vestrymen: 
Humphrey Underbill, Jonathan Haight, Daniel Purdy, Sergt. ; Justice Isaac 
Denham, Nicholas Conkling, William Fowler, George Lane, Samuel Lane, Poly- 
carpus Nellson, Richard Westcoate. Clerk : Joseph Cleator. 



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1718. IVarJens : Henry Disbrow, George Lane. Vestrymen: Jonathan 
Ilaight, Caleb Hyatt, Samuel Lane, Timothy Knapp, John Disbrow, Daniel Lane, 
Joseph Green, Joseph Horton, Eleazer Gedney, John Miller. Cierk: Joseph Cleator. 

17 19. Wardens: Ebenezer Theall, George Lane. Vestrymen : '^vistice John 
Haight, Robert Bloomer, Caleb Hyatt, Moses Knapp, Henry Fowler, Joseph 
Lyon, John Brundige, David Ogden, John Disbrow, Zachariah Mills. Clerk: 
Joseph Cleator. 

1720. Wardens: John Haight, Isaac Denham. J'estryme7t : Jonathan 
Haight, Samuel Lane, Samuel Purdy, Abraham Miller, Joseph Horton, Henry 
Fowler, George Lane, Daniel Brundige, Jonathan Kniffen, Jonathan Miller. 
Clerk: Joseph Cleator. 

1 72 1. Wardens : Samuel Purdy, Jonathan Haight. Vestrymen : Ebenezer 
Theall, Joseph Lyon, Daniel Purdy, Abraham Miller, Ebenezer Kniffen, Richard 
Ogden, Henry Fowler, William Fowler, Peter Brown, Jonathan Miller. Clerk : 
Joseph Cleator. 

1722. Wat dens: Samuel Purdy, Capt. Henry Fowler. J'estrymen : John 
Haight, John Hnrton, Robert Bloomer, David Ugden, Ebenezer Kniffen, Ensign 
Daniel Purdy, Benjamin Brown, Isaac Covert, Jonathan Miller, Polycarpus Nell- 
son. CAr/J .• John Carhartt. 

1723. Wardens: George Lane, Benjamin Brown. Vestrymen : Daniel 
Purdy, merchant ; Samuel Brown, Capt. Ebenezer Theall, George Kniffen, Joseph 
Lyon, Timothy Knapp, Joseph Kniffen, Joseph Purdy, While Plains ; John 
Bloomer, Joseph Seely. Clerk : John Carhartt. 

1724. Wardens: Capt. Henry Fowler, John Horton. Vestrymen: Isaac 
C!overt, John Budd, Lieut. William Fowler, Jonathan Purdy, Robert Bloomer, 
Sr., Samuel Lane, Sr., Benjamin Griffen, Mamaroneck; Joseph Seely, Bedford; 
Joseph Carpenter, Northcastle; John Gedney, Scarsdale. Clerk : John Carhartt. 

1725. ^F(7rt/t'«j; Jonathan Haight, Jacob Haviland. Vestrymen: Jeremiah 
Fowler, Scarsdale ; Polycarpus Nellson, Francis Pellam, Joseph Seely, Daniel 
Brundige, Lieut. William Fowler, John Horton, Richard Ogden, Monmouth 
Llart, Roger Park. Clerk : John Carhartt. 

1726. J Far dens : Samuel Purdy, Benjamin Brown. Vestrymen: Capt. 
Henry Fowler, Ensign Daniel Purdy, William Willett, Joseph Sherwood, John 
Brundige, Anthony Miller, John Credney, Richard Woolsey, Silas Carpenter, 
Jonathan Haight. Clerk : John Carhartt. 

1727. Wardens: Ensign Daniel Purdy, John Budd. Vestrymen: Benjamin 
Brown, Jonathan Brown, John Horton, William Willett, Justice Jonathan Haight, 
Isaac Covert, Eleazer Gedney, John Bloomer, Thomas Flewelling, Joseph Seely. 
Clerk : John Carhartt. 

1728. Wardens: Lieut. William Fowler, Abraham Miller. Vestrymen : 



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Andrew Merritt, Benjamin Brown, Ensign Daniel Purely, Simuel Trcdwell, Joseph 
Barton, Michael Shaw, Daniel Horton, George Denis, Joseph Seely, Samuel 
Lane, Jr. Clerk: John Carhartt. 

1729. Wardens: Capt. David Ogden, Daniel Purdy. Vestrymen : ]o\m. 
Horton, Joseph Sherwood, Roger Park, James Gedney, Jonathan Purdy, Michael 
Shaw, Joseph Seely, Ephraim Golding, Thomas Fowler, Samuel Lane, Jr. 
Clerk : John Carhartt. 

1730. Wardens: Ensign Daniel Purdy, John Glover. Vestrymen: Joseph 
Seely, Isaac Anderson, Lieut. William Fowler, Joshua Barnes, William White, 
John Bloomer, John Horton, Samuel Thorn, Thomas Fowler, Joseph Merritt. 
Clerk: John Carhartt. 

1731. Wardens: Daniel Purdy, John Glover. V^estrymen: Lieut. William 
Fowler, Francis Doughty, Joseph Merritt, William Willett, Jonathan Purdy, 
Joseph Seely, William White, John Horton, Samuel Dean, Jonathan Brown. 
Clerk : John Carhartt. 

1732. Wardens : Idcca&s Woods, John Budd. F^j/ryw^w .• Joseph Seely, 
Francis Pellam, William Willett, William Fowler, Jonathan Purdy, Gerardus 
Drake, John Gedney, Daniel Purdy, John Lyon, Hachaliah Brown. Clerk: 
John Carhartt. 

'733- Wardens: Daniel Purdy, Sr., Joseph Kniffen. Vestrymen: Charles 
Theall, Francis Djughty, Roger Park, Thomas Fowler, Abraham Miller, 
William White, Gerardus Drake, Joseph Seely, Francis Pellam, Samuel llaight. 
Clerk : John Carhartt. 

1734. Wardens: Daniel Purdy, Sr., William Willett. Vestrymen: Samuel 
Tredwell, Francis Doughty, George Lane, John Gedney, John Holmes;, Thomas 
Fowler, Hachaliah Brown, Jeremiah Fowler, Jacob Furman, Joseph Sutton. 
Cltrk: John Carhartt. 

1735. Wardens: Justice Daniel Purdy, Francis Doughty. Vestrymen: 
John Horton, William Fowler, Roger Park, Thomas Fowler, Elisha Budd, 
Edward Stevenson, John Holmes, Jonathin Ogden, William Barker, Henry 
Straing. Clerk: John Carhartt. 

1736. Wardens: Daniel Purdy, Benja:iiin Brown. Vestrymen : Capt. 
William Fowler, Jonathan Purdy, Joseph Seely, Lieut. John Budd, Jonathan 
Brown, Godfred Hanse, Hachaliah Brown, John Roads, John Bloomer, Jonathan 
Ogden. 67^^/5 ." John Carhartt. 

1737. Wardens: Samuel Purdy, Francis Doughty. Vestrymen : Jonathan 
Brown, John Budd, Joseph Lyon, Joseph Kniffen, Jonathan Purdy, Roger Park,John 
Gedney, Gerardus Drake, Joseph Fowler, Joseph Seely. Clerk : John Carhartt. 

1738. Wardens: Samuel Purdy, Francis Doughty. Vestrymen : Daniel 
Purdy, Sr., John Budd, Jonathan Brown, John Gedney, John Bloomer, Elisha 



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Budd, William Fowler, John Miller (son of John), George Denis, Roger Park. 
Clerk : John Carhartt. 

1739. iVardens : Capt. Hachaliah Brown, Lieut. Andrew Merritt. Vestry- 
men : Col. William Willett, Samuel Purdy, Monmouth Hart, John Lyon, Francis 
Purdy, Jonathan GrifTen, Underhill Budd, John Merritt, Jonathan Baker, John 
Woolsey. C/^;'/C' .• John Carhartt. 

1740. Wardens : Capt. Hachaliah Brown, Lieut. Andrew Merritt. Vestry- 
men : Jedediah Camfield, Benjamin Carpenter, Jonathan Brown, John Glover, 
Joseph Brundige, Thomas Hadden, Benjamin Knapp, Joseph Satton, Judge 
Daniel Purdy, Capt. William Fowler. Clerk: John Carhartt. 

1741. W^art/f^j- : Justice Daniel Purdy, Justice John Thomas. J'estrymen : 
Joseph Kniffen, Gilbert Bloomer, Justice Samuel Tredwell, Joseph Ogden, Samuel 
Lyon, Captain William Dusenberry, Daniel Smith, Caleb Hyatt, Jr. Lewis Ange- 
vine, Underhill Budd. Clerk: John Carhartt. 

1742. rFrtr(/i?wj' .■ Justice John Thomas, Justice Daniel Purdy. Vestrymen: 
Ebenezer Kniffen, Gilbert Bloomer, Roger Park, Godfred Hanse, George Dennis, 
Caleb Fowler, Richard Holmes, John Ray, Benjamin Griffen, Anthony Hill. 
Clerk : John Carhartt. 

1743. Wardens : Daniel Purdy, John Thomas. Vestrymen : Captain Hacha- 
liah Brown, Joseph Sherwood, Jr.; Caleb Hortan, William Barker, Isaac Gedney, 
James Horton, Samuel Lane, Jr., Justice Samuel Tredwell, Aaron Foreman, Lewis 
McDonald. C/^r>^ ; John Carhartt. 

1744. Wardens: Daniel Purdy, John Thomas. Vestrymen: Roger Park, 
Jr. ; Samuel Tredwell, Joseph Fowler, Stephen Merritt, Justice John Bloomer, 
James Hunt, David Merritt, John Miller, Charles Theall, Jr., Hachaliah Brown. 
Clerk : John Carhartt. 

1745. Wardens: Samuel Purdy, Samuel Tredwell. Vestrymen: Daniel 
Purdy, Capt. Hachaliah Brown, John Gedney, Abraham Miller, Bedford; Joseph 
Green, John Thomas, Joseph Haight, Alexander Moore, Henry Fowler, Thomas 
Golden. Clerk: Samuel Purdy. 

1746. Wardens: Samuel Tredwell, Samuel Purdy. Vestrymen: Col. 
William Willett, Daniel Purdy, John Carhartt, John Miller, Elisha Budd, David 
Lane, William Southerland, Daniel Barker, William Barker, Gilbert Bloomer. 
Clerk ; Samuel Purdy. 

1747. Wardens: Elisha Budd, Charles Theall. Vestrymen : Peter Jay, 
Capt. Hachaliah Brown, Capt. Jonathan Purdy, Joseph Haight, Benjamin 
Griffen, John Sutton, Christopher Isinghart, Thomas Butson, William Ogden, 
Gabriel Smith. Clerk : Samuel Purdy. 

1748. Wardens : Elisha Budd, Charles Theall. Vestrymen : Major Hacha- 
liah Brown, Solomon Purdy, Charles Haight, Isaac Hatfield, Reuben Holmes, 



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John Floomer, Samuel Hunt, Jeremiah Fowler, Thomas Merritt, son of Joseph; 
Thomas Hopkins. Clerk; Samuel Purdy. 

1749. W^rtr^/^wj; Charles Theal, Elisha Budd. Vestrymen: Daniel Barker, 
James Hunt, Joseph Hains, Samiiel Haight, Major Hachaliah Brown, Job 
Hadden, Abraham Bush, Nathan Kniffcr, David Lane, Lewis McDonald. Clerk: 
Samuel Purdy. 

1750. Waj-dens : James Hciton, Jeremiah Fowler. Vestrymen : Major 
Hachaliah Brown, Roger Purdy, John Miller, David Lane, Benjamin Grififen, 
John Thomas, John Guion, Francis Purdy, Hicks Seaman, Capt. John Gedney. 
Clerk ; Samuel Purdy. 

1751. Wardens; Jeremiah Fowler, Joseph Sherwood. Vestrymen: Col. 
William Willett, James Horton, Thomas Barker, Lewis Angevine, Capt. Jonathan 
Purdy, Aaron Foreman, Jr., Benjamin 1 home, William Dusenberry, Jonathan 
Brown, David Haight, Jr. Clerk ; Samuel Purdy. 

1752. IVardens ; Joshua Purdy, Roger Park, Jr. Vestrymen; Jonathan 
Haight, Major Hachaliah Brown, James Horton, Joseph Sherwood, Thomas Star 
Tredwell, Caleb Horton, Capt. Jonathan Lyon, Jonathan Tyler, William Louns- 
bery, James Hunt. dVc";'/' : Samuel Purdy. 

1753- Wardens: Co]. William Willett, Jonathan Brown. Vestrymen: Roger 
Park, Jr., Joshua Purdy, Isaac Miller, Joseph Sutton, Gilbeit Bloomer, John 
Thomas, Elisha Hyatt, Still John Purdy, Jonathan Griffen, Job Hadden. Clerks: 
Samuel Purdy, Job Hadden. 

1754. Wardens: Col. William Willett, Jonathan Brown. Vestrymen: Still 
John Purdy, John Holmes, Jr., Caleb Horton, Elihu Pallmer, Capt. John Gedney, 
Gilbert Bloomer, Maj. Hach. Brown, Capt. Andrew Merritt, John Thomas, Job 
Hadden. Clerk: Gilbert Bloomer. 

I75S' Wardens: Col. William Willett, Jonathan Bi own. P^'stryjiien: ^ohn 
Thomas, Hachaliah Brown, Job Hadden, Samuel Willson, Gilbert Bloomer, John 
Holmes, Jr., Still John Purdy, Jr., Jonathan Purdy, Jr., Lewis Angevine, 
Edward Merritt. Clerk: Gilbert Bloomer. 

1756. Wardens: Col. William Wihett, Jonathan Brown. Vestry?nen: 'EX\s\i2t. 
Budd, Capt. Jonathan Grififen, Isaac Gedney, Aaron Foreman, John Foreman, 
Capt. Andrew Merritt, Capt. James Horton, Major Hachaliah Brown, Thomas 
Haviland, Josiah Purdy. Chrk: Gilbert Bloomer. 

1757. Wardens: William Willett, Jonathan Brown. Vestrymen: John 
Thomas, Daniel Purdy, Hachaliah Brown, Thomas Barker, Job Hadden, Eben- 
ezer Miller, Aaron Foreman, Abraham Hatfield, John Gedney, John Thomas, Jr. 
Clerk: Gilbert Bloomer. 

1758. Wardens: William Willett, Jonathan Brown. Vestrymen: John 
Thomas, Maj. Hachaliah Brown, Capt. Andrew Merritt, Joshua Purdy, Job Had- 



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den, Zebulon Crane, Nathaniel Carpenter, Elisha Budd, Jonathan Griffen, Thomas 
Barker. Clerk: Gilbert Bloomer. 

lyen. Wardens: Jonathan Brown, William Willett. Vestrymen: John 
Thomas, Roger Park, Jr., Jotham Wright, Hachaliah Theall, Job Hadden, Elisha 
Budd, Benjamin Griffen, Lewis Angevine, Nathan Kniffen, Zebulon Crane. 
CIcrl:: Gilbert Bloomer. 

1760. Wardens: Col. William Willett, Jonathan Brown. Vestrymen: John 
Thomas, Andrew Merritt, Job Hadden, John Thomas, Jr., Thomas Barker, 
William Griffen, Elisha Budd, Joseph Fowler, Caleb Fowler, Abraham Miller. 
Clerk: Gilbert Bloomer. 

1761. Wardens: Col. William Willett, Jonathan Brown. Vestrymen: John 
Thomas, Capt. Andrew Merritt, John Thomas, Jr. ; Benjamin Griffen, Job Had- 
den, William Griffen, Jonathan Purdy, Abraham Miller, Joseph Fowler, Caleb 
Fowler. Clerk: Gilbert Bloomer. 

1762. JVardcns : Elisha Budd, Lbenezer Kniffen. Vestrymen: Jotham 
Wright, Lewis Marvin, Jonathan Brown, Jr., Hachaliah Purdy, William Sutton, 
James Holmes, Samuel Purdy, Lewis Angevine, Roger Lyon, Aaron Foreman. 
Clerk: Timothy Wetmore. 

1763. Wardens: Ebenezer Kniffen, Andrew Merritt. Vestrymen: John 
Thomas, Peter Jay, Job Hadden, Jonathan Brown, Jr., Gilbert Merritt, Zebediah 
Mills, Abraham Miller, Dr. Robert Graham, Benjamin Griffen, John Ferris. 
Clerk : Gilbert Bloomer. 

1764. J Far dens : John Thomas, Ebenezer Kniffen. Vestrymen: Abraham 
Miller, William Griffen, Reuben Wright, Jonathan Brown, Jr., Job Hadden, 
Elisha Budd, John Pallmer, James Stevenson, John Guion, Samuel Brown. Clerk : 
Gilbert Bloomer. 

1765. Wardens : Gilbert Bloomer, Joshua Purdy. Vestrymen : James 
Horton, Jr., William Griffen, Samuel Purdy, Elijah Miller, James Holmes, 
Zebulon Crane, Christopher Izenhart, Robert Bloomer, Timothy Wetmore, Roger 
Park, Jr. Clerk : Gilbert Bloomer. 

1766. Wardens : Gilbert Bloomer, Joshua Purdy. Vestrymen: John 
Thomas, Jr., David Brown, Job Hadden, James Hart, William Sutton, Andrew 
Plill, Jonathan Purdy, Jr , Elijah Miller, Nehemiah Lounsbery, Joseph Holmes. 
Clerk : Gilbert Bloomer. 

1767. Wardens : Hachaliah Brown, Timothy Wetmore. Vestrymen : 
Ezekiel Halsted, Samuel Haviland, Joseph Haviland, Joshua Purdy, Caleb 
Fowler, Benjamin Griffen, Elijah Gedney, Jonathan Purdy, Jr., Zebediah Mills, 
John Foreman. Clerk: Gilbert Bloomer. 

1768. Wardens : Timothy Wetmore, Hachaliah Purdy. Vestrymen'. 
Robert Bloomer, David Brown, Josiah Fowler, James Hayns, William Sutton, 



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William Griffen, Anthony Miller, Jr., Elijah Miller, Justice Miller. John Woolsey. 
Clerk : Gilbert Bloomer. 

1769. Wardens: Joshua Purdy, James Horton, Jr. Vestrymen: David 
Brown, Thomas Thomas, Solomon Purdy, John Guion, David Daton, James 
Holmes, Israel Lyon, William Sutton, William Griffen, James Budd. Clerk: 
Gilbert Bloomer. 

1770. Wardens : Joshua Purdy, Benjamin Griffen. Vestrymen : David 
Brown, Samuel Tredwell, Gilbeit Bloomer, Job Hadden, Gilbert Budd, William 
Griffen, Elijah Purdy, Stephen Holmes, John Dusenburoh, Charles Haight. Clerk: 
Gilbert Bloomer. 

1 77 1. Wardens : Joshua Purdy, Benjamin Griff'en. Vestrymen : Gilbert 
Bloomer, Thomas Thomas, Josiah Brown, Job Hadden, Gilbert Budd, Monmouth 
Hart, Jonathan Griffen Tompkins, Elijah Holmes, Elijah Hunter, Elijah Miller, 
Clerk : Gilbert Bloomer. 

1772. Wardens : Joshua Purdy, Benjamin Griffen. Vestrymen : Gilbert 
Bloomer, Job Had.len, David Brown, Edward Merrit, William Griffen, Samuel 
Purdy, Monmouth Hart, Stephen Holmes, James Wright, James Miller. Clerk: 
Gilbert Bloomer. 

1773. Wardens : Joshua Purdy, Benjamin Griffen. Vestrymen : Gilbert 
Bloomer, Job Hadden, John Thomas, Jr., Lewis McDonald, Jr., John Lawrence, 
John Dusonburah, William Griff"en, Isaac Gedney, Elijah Purdy, Elijah Miller. 
Clerk : Gilbert Bloomer. 

1774. Wardens : Joshua Purdy, Benjamin Griffen. Vestrymen : Gilbert 
Bloomer, Timothy Wetmore, Zeno Carpenter, Gilbert Budd, William Barker, 
Jonathan Purdy, Amnon Fowler, John Woolsey, Mathew Founten, Elijah Hunter. 
Clerk : Gilbert Bloomer. 

1775. IVardens : Joshua Purdy, Benjamin Griffen. Vestrymen : Gilbert 
Bloomer, Zeno Carpenter, Samuel Haviland, John Haight, Gill Budd Horton, John 
Barker, Isaac Purdy, Israel Lyon, Daniel Smith, James Wright. Clerk: Gilbert 
Bloomer. 

1776. Wardens : Joshua Purdy, James Horton, Jr. Vestrymen : Gilbert 
Blooomer, Zeno Carpenter, John Haight, Joshua Hunt, William Lounsbery, 
William Griffen, Gilbert Horton, Israel Lyon, Joseph Owen, Stephen Baxter. 
Clerk : Timothy Wetmore. 

1 777-1 784. No records. 

1785. Trustees : John Thomas, William Miller, Gilbert Budd, Joshua 
Purdy, John Falconer, Isaac Brown. Clerk: William Miller. 

1786. Trustees : John Thomas, William Miller, Gilbert Budd, Isaac Brown, 
Elijah Purdy, Gilbert Brundige. Clerk: William Miller. 

1787. Trustees: William Miller, Elijah Purdy, Gilbert Budd, Thomas 
Haight, Ezrahiah Wetmore, Joshua Purdy. Clerk : William Miller. . 



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1788. Wardejis : Peter Jay, Isaac Purdy. Vestrytnen : Joshua Purdy, Sr., 
Jesse Hunt, Andrew Lyon, Thomas Brown, Thomas Thomas, EMjah Purdy, 
Joshua Secor, Moses Fowler. Clerks : Richard C. Moore, Jesse Hunt. 

1789. IVardetts : P<;ter Jay, Isaac Purdy. Vestrymen : Joshua Purdy, 
Elijah Purdy, Jesse Hunt, Thomas Brown, Johial Wetmore, John Falconer, John 
Haight, Samuel Purdy. Clerk: Jesse Hunt. 

1790. Warden : '^e^^r Jay, Isaac Purdy. Vestrymen: Joshua Purdy, 
Elijah Purdy, John Falconer, Thomas Brown, Ezrahiah Wetmore, Thomas 
Haight, John Haight, Samuel Purdy. Clerk : Ezrahiah Wetmore. 

1791. IVardens : Peter Jay, Isaac Purdy. Vestrytnen: Joshua Purdy, 
Elijah Purdy, Thomas Brown, Walter Nichols, John Haight, Samuel Purdy, 
Jonathan Purdy, Samuel Marvin. Clerk: David Foole. 

1792. Wardens: Peter Jay, Isaac Purdy. F^j-^'nv«^« .- Joshua Purdy, Jesse 
Hunt, Elijah Purdy, John Haight, Walter Nichols, Stephen Hoyt, Samuel Marvin, 
William Purdy. Clerk: David Foote. 

1793. Wardens: Peter Jay, Isaac Purdy. F^.f^'rjv^^w .- Joshua Purdy, John 
Haight, Walter Nichols, Joshua Purdy, Jr., Ezrahiah Wetmore, William Purdy, 
Samuel Marvin, Jonathan Purdy. Clerk : David Foote. 

1794. Wardens: Peter Jay, Isaac Purdy. Vestrymen: Joshua Purdy, 
Joshua Purdy, Jr., John Haight, Ezrahiah Wetmore, Jonathan Horton, John 
Barker, Henry Dusenbery, Jonathan Purdy Clerk : Ezrahiah Wetmore. 

1795. Wardens : V&Xsx ]2iy, Isaac Purdy. I'es'rymen: Joshua Purdy, 
John Haight, Joshua Purdy, Jr., Ezrahiah Wetmo-e, John B irker, Jonathan 
Horton, Joseph Hatfield, Joshua Secor. Clerk : Ezrahiah Wetmore. 

1796. Wardens : Peter Jay, Isaac Purdy. Vestrymen : Joshua Purdy, John 
Haight, Thomas Brown, John Guion, Thomas Thomas, Gilbert Hatfield, 
Jonathan Purdy, Nathaniel Purdy. Clerk: Ezrahiah Wetmore. 

1797. Wardens: Peter Jay, Isaac Purdy. Vestryman: Joshua Purdy, 
Thomas Brown, John Haight, John Guion, Thomas Thomas, Jonathan Purdy, 
Caleb Horton, Gilbert Hatfield. Clerk : Isaac Sniffen. 

1798. JVarJens : Isaac Purdy, Joshua Purdy. Vestrymen : John Haight, 
John Guion, Joshua Purdy. Jr., Gilbert Hatfield, Roger Park, Caleb Horton, 
Jonathan Purdy, Henry Dusenbury. Clerk: Isaac Sniffen. 

1799. Wardens: Isaac Purdy, Joshua Purdy. Vestrymen: John Guion, 
Joshua Purdy, Jr., John Haight, Roger Park, Jonathan Purdy, Caleb Horton, 
Henry Dusenbury, Isaac Sniffen. Clerk : Isaac Sniffen. 

1800. IVardens : Isaac Purdy, John Haight. Vestrymen : Henry Dusen- 
bury, John Guion Joshua Purdy, Samuel Marvin, Nehemiah Purdy, Joseph Park, 
James Barker, Jonathan Purdy. Clerk : Isaac Sniffen. 

1801. ^Frzn/^/M,- John Haight, Andrew Lyon. Vestrymen: Samuel Marvin 



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John Guion, Nathaniel Penfield, Nehemiah Purdy, Joshua Purdy, David Roger?, 
Jonathan Purdy, Joseph Park. Clerk : Isaac Sniffen. 

1802. ]Va7'dens : John Haight, Andrew Lyon. Vestrymen : John Giiioii, 
Joshua Purdy, Nehemiah Purdy, Nathaniel Penfield, David Rogers, Joseph 
Park, Samuel Marvin, Jonathan Purdy, C/erk : Isaac Sntften. 

1803. JVardens : John Haight, John Guion. Vestry uien : Samuel Marvin, 
Nehemiah Puidy, Roger Purdy (North street); Joshua Purdy, David Rogers, 
Nathaniel Penfield, Samuel Armour, David Brown. C/er/c : Isaac Snift'en. 

1804. Wardens : John Haight, John Guion, J^estrymen : Joshua Purdy, 
Samuel Armour, Nathaniel Penfield, David Rogers, Roger Purdy, Nehemiah 
Purdy, David Brown, Samuel Marvin. Clerk : Isaac Sniffen. 

1805. Wardens : John Guion, John Haight. Vestry men : Samuel Armour, 
Samuel Marvin, Joshua Purdy, David Rogers, Nehemiah Purdy, David Brown, 
Nathaniel Penfield, Roger Purdy, Clerk : Isaac Sniffen, 

1806. JVardens : John Haight, John Guion, l-'estrymen : Samuel Armour, 
David Brown, Nathaniel Penfield, Joshua Purdy, Nehemiah Purdy, Roger Purdy, 
Samuel Marvin, David Rogers, Jr. Clerk ; Isaac Sniffen. 

1807. Wardens : John Haight, John Guion. Vestrymen : Jo>hua Purdy, 
David Brown, David Rogers, Jr., Samuel Armour, Roger Purdy, Samuel Mar- 
vin, Nehemiah Purdy, Roger Park. C/erk : Evan Rogers. 

1808. Wardens : John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. J'estry/iien : Roger Purdy, 
David Brown, Joseph Park, David Rogers, Jr., Nathaniel Penfield, Roger Park, 
Gilbert Brown, Elias Purdy. Clerk : Evan Rogers. 

1809. Wardens: John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vestry mett : Roger Pardy, 
Gilbert Brown, Roger Park, Elias Purdy, William T. Provoost, David Brown, Dr. 
David Rogers, Jr., Joseph Park. Clerk : David Rogers, Jr. 

1810. /Far^^wj ." John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vestrymen : Gilbert Brown, 
Hachaliah Brown, Roger Purdy, David Rogers, Jr., Elias Purdy, Joseph Park, 
Roger Park, William T, Provoost. Clerk : David Rogers, Jr. 

181 1. W^ar^^^j-.' John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vestrymen: Gilbert Brown, 
Roger Park, Elias Purdy, Thomas McCollum, William T. Provoost, Ro^er Purdy, 
David Rogers, Jr., Gershom Bulkley. Clerk: William T. Provoost. 

1812. /^F(ir(/«w •• John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Ves'rymen: Gilbert Brown, 
Joseph Strang, Elias Purdy, Thomas McCollum, Thomas Halsted, William T. 
Provoost, David Rogers, Jr., Gershom Bulkley. Clerk : David Rogers, Jr. 

1813. Wardens: John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vestrymen: ^\\zs. VxxxAy, 
Gershom Bulkley, Joseph Strang, Thomas Halsted, Thomas McCollum, WilUam 
T. Provoost, Gilbert Brown, David Rogers, Jr. Clerk : David Rogers, Jr. 

1814. Wardens: John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vestryinen: Gershom 
Bulkley, Gilbert Brown, Thomas McCollum, Elias Purdy, Thomas Halsted, Henry 
Penfield, Joseph Strang, David Rogers, Jr. Clerk : David Rogers, Jr. 



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1815. Wardens: John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vestry7)ien : Gershom 
Bulkley, Thomas Halsted, Ehas Purdy, Thomas McCollum, Gilbert Brown, 
David Rogers, Jr., Wilham T. Provoost, Thomas Purdy. Clerk: David 
Rogers, Jr. 

1816. Wardens: John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vestrymen: Gershom 
Bulkley, Gilbert Brown, Thomas Halsted, Elias Purdy, David Rogers, Jr., 
Thomas McCollum, William T. Provoost, Thomas Purdy. Clerk: David 
Rogers, Jr. 

1817. Wardens: John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vestrymen : Gershom 
Bulkley, Gilbert Brown, Thomas Halsted, Thomas Purdy, Elias Purdy, Thomas 
McCollum, William T. Provoost, David Rogers, Jr. Clerk : William T. Provoost. 

1818. Wardens : John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vestrymen : Gilbert Brown, 
Jonathan Purdy, William Bush, Jesse Jarvis, Gershom Bulkley, Abraham Guion. 
Thomas Purdy, Elias Purdy. Clerk : William Bush. 

1819. Wardens: John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vestrymen: Dr. G. C. 
Bayley, Abraham Guion, Elias Purdy, Jesse Jarvis, William Bush, Hachaliah 
Brown, Nehemiah Purdy, Jr., William T. Provoost. Clerk: William Bush. 

1820. Wardens: John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vestrymen: Dr. G. C. 
Bayley, Abraham Guion, Elias Purdy, Nehemiah Purdy, Jr., Capt. William 
T. Provoost, William Bush, William Bulkley, Thomas McCollum. Clerk 
William T. Provoost. 

1821. Wardens: John Guion, Capt. Jonathan Purdy. Vestrymen: Abra- 
ham Guion, Elias Purdy, Jr., Nehemiah Purdy, Jr., William Bush, William Bulk- 
ley, Jonathan Purdy, of Rye, Dr. G. C. Bayley, Capt. William T. Provoost. 
Clerk: William T. Provoost. 

1822. Wardens: John Guion, Capt. Jonathan Purdy. Vestrymen: Pshx2i\i2im. 
Guion, Gabrael Purdy, Nehemiah Purdy, Jr., William Bush, William Bulkley, 
Belden Bent, Isaac Purdy, Capt. William T. Provoost. Clerk: William T. Pro- 
voost. 

1823. Wardens: John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vestrymen: William 
Bush, Abraham Guion, Roger Park, Belden Bent, Isaac Purdy, Nehemiah Purdy, 
Henry L. Penfield, William Bulkley. Clerk : Henry L. Penfield. 

1823. December i. David Brown, elected Warden in place of John Guion, 
deceased. 

1824. Wardens: Capt. Jonathan Purdy, David Brown. Vestrymen: Abra- 
ham Guion, Roger Park, William Bush, Henry L. Penfield, Samuel Purdy, Isaac 
Purdy, John Osborn, James Guion. Clerk: Henry L. Penfield. 

1825. Wardens: David Brown, Hachaliah Brown. Vestrymen: Abraham 
Guion, Roger Park, William Bush, Henry L. Penfield, Samuel Purdy, Isaac 
Purdy, John Osborn, Michael Moore. Clerk: Henry L. Penfield. 

1826. Wardens: David Brown, Hachaliah Brown. Vestrymen: Samuel 



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Purdy, Roger Park, Henry L. Penfleld, Michael Moore, William Bush, John 
Osborn, Abraham Guion, Peter Guion. Clerk: Henry L. Penfield. 

1827. Wardens'. David Brown, Hachaliah Brown. Vestrymen: Samuel 
Purdy, William Bush, Abraham Guion, Henry L. Penfield, Roger Park, John 
Osborn, Michael Moore, Josiah Purdy. Clerk: Henry L. Penfield. 

1828. Wardens: David Brown, Hachaliah Brown, Vestrymen: William 
Bush, Roger Park, Sanuel Purdy, Henry L. Penfield, John H, Usborn, Jesse 
Purdy, Abraham Guion, Andrew Clark. Clerk: Henry L. Penfield. 

1829. iSjo, 1831. No records. 

1832. Wardens: David Brown, Hachaliah Brown. Vestrymen: David 
Brooks, William Bush, Samuel Purdy, John H. Osborn, Josiah Bulkley, James D. 
Halsted, Jesse Purdy, William Smith. Clerk : James D. Halsted. 

1833. Same as 1832. Clerk: James D. Halsted. 

1834. Wardens: David Brown, Samuel Purdy. Vestrymen: William Bush, 
John H. Osborn, Jesse Purdy, Howell Clark, Samuel A. Provoost, Read Peck, 
William Bulkley, Samuel Haviland. Clerk : Read Peck. 

1834. November 22. Josiah Bulkley elected wf-rifr)/;«a« in place of William 
Bulkley, resigned. 

1835. Wardens: Hachaliah Brown, Josiah Bulkley. Vestrymen: William 
Bush, Samuel Haviland, David Brooks, William Smith, Howell Clark, John H. 
Osborn, Jesse Purdy, James D. Halsted. Clerk: James D. Halsted. 

1836. Wardens: Hachaliah Brown, Josiah Bulkley. Vestrymen: William 
Bush, John H. Osborn, David Brooks, William Smith, Samuel Haviland, Jesse 
Purdy, Howell Clark, James D. Halsted. Clerk : James D. Halsted. 

1837. Wardens; Hachaliah Brown, Josiah Bulkley. Vestrymen: William 
Bush, John H. Osborn, Jesse Purdy, David Brooks, Samuel Haviland, William 
Smith, James Stebbins, James D. Halsted. Clerk : James D. Halsted, 

1838. Same as 1837. Clerk: James D. Halsted. 

1839. Same as 1838. Clerk : James D. Halsted. 

1840. Same as 1839. Clerk : James D. Halsted. 

1841. Wardens: Peter A. Jay, Hachaliah Brown. Vestrymen : Josiah 
Bulkley, Samuel Haviland, William Bush, Jesse Purdy, James Stebbins, James D. 
Halsted, John H. Osborn, Samuel W. Kelley. Clerk: James D. Halsted. 

1842. Wardens: Peter A. Jay, Hachaliah Brown. Vestrymen: William 
Bush, Jesse Purdy, Samuel Haviland, James D. Halsted, James Stebbins, Josiah 
Bulkley, Samuel W. Kelley, Newberry D. Halsted. Clerk: James D. Halsted. 

1843. Wardens: Hachaliah Brown, William Bush. Vestrymen: Josiah 
Bulkley, Samuel Haviland, Jesse Purdy, James Stebbins, John Brooks, Samuel 
W. Kelley, James D. Halsted, Newberry D. Halsted. Clerk: James D. Halsted. 

1844. Same as 1843. Clerk: James D. Halsted. 



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l845- Same as 1844. C/^r,^ / James D. Halsted. April 25, 1845, Hachaliah 
Brown resigned as Warden; John C. Jay elected to fill his place. May 15, 1845, 
John C. Jay resigned, and Josiah Bulkley elected to fill his place as Warden, and 
Read Peck elected Vestryman to fill Josiah Bulkley's place. 

1846. February 12, John C. Jay elected vestryman in place of Samuel W. 
Kelley, resigned. 

1846. Wardens: William Bush, Josiah Bulkley. Vestrymen: Samuel 
Haviland, Read Peck, Newberry D. Halsted, Jesse Purdy, James Stebbins, John 
C. Jay, George C. Close, John Brooks. Clerk: John Brooks. 

1847. Wardens: William Bush, Josiah Bulkley. Vestrymen: John Brooks, 
Newberry D. Halsled, John C. Jay, Read Peck, Samuel Haviland, George C. 
Close, Jesse Purdy, Henry M. Barker, Clerk: John Brooks. 

1848. Wardens: William Bush, Josiah Bulkley. Vestrymen: James Steb- 
bins, Jesse Purdy, John Brooks, Samuel Haviland, Read Peck, George C. Close, 
Newberry D. Halsted, Henry M. Barker. Clerk: John Brooks. 

1849. Wardens: William Bush, Josiah Bulkley. Vestrymen: Samuel Havi- 
land, James Stebbins, John Brooks, Jesse Purdy, Newberry D. Halsted, Henry 
M. Barker, Read Peck, James D. Halsted. Clerk: Read Peck. 

1850. Wardens: William Bush, Josiah Bulkley. Vestrymen: Samuel Havi- 
land, James Stebbins, Jesse Purdy, Newberry D. Halsted, Read Peck, James D. 
Halsted, John S. McKay, William Purdy. Clerk: Read Peck. 

185 1. Wardens: William Bush, Josiah Bulkley. Vestrymen: Samuel Havi- 
land, Jesse Purdy, James Stebbins, Newberry D. Halsted, William R. Talbot, 
Read Peck, John S. McKay, William Purdy. Clerk : Read Peck. 

1852. Wardens : John A. Dix, John C. Jay. Vestrymen : James Stebbins, 
Samuel Hivilar.d, Francis Emmons, Nicholas W. Stuyvesant, Charles T. Crom- 
well, William R. Talbot, Newberry D. Halsted, John H. Glover, Jr. Clerk : 
William R. Talbot. 

1853. Wardens : John C. Jay, John A. Dix. Vestrymen : Samuel Haviland, 
James Stebbins, Francis Emmons, Charles T. Cromwell, William R. Talbot, New- 
berry D, Halsted, John H. Glover, Jr., George R. A. Ricketts. Clerk : William 
R. Talbot. 

1854. Wardens : John C. Jay, John A. Dix. \Vestrymen : Samuel Haviland, 
James Stebbins, Newberry D. Halsted, William R. Talbot, Charles T. Cromwell, 
George R. A. Ricketts, Francis Emmons, Samuel K. Satterlee. Clerk : William 
R. Talbot. 

1855. Wardens : Benjamin Loder, John C. Jay. Vestrymen : Charles T. 
Cromwell, Francis Emmons, Samuel K. Satterlee, Samuel Haviland, James Steb- 
bins, George R. A. Ricketts, Newberry D. Halsted, William R. Talbot. Clerk : 
George R. A. Ricketts. 



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1856. Wardens : Benjamin Loder, John C. Jay. Vestrymen: Samuel Havi- 
land, Francis Emmons, Samuel K. Satterlee, James Stebbins, Newberry D. 
Halsted, James D. Halsted, George R. A. Ricketts, Adam T. Sackett. Clerk: 
George R. A. Ricketts. 

1857. Wardens : John C. Jay, Benjamin Loder. Vestrymen : Samuel 
Haviland, Francis Emmons, Samuel K. Satterlee, James Stebbins, James D. 
Halsted, George R. A. Ricketts, Adam T. Sackett, Newberry D. Halsted. 
Clerk : George R. A. Ricketts. 

1858. Wardens : John C. Jay, Benjamin Loder. Vestrytnen: Samuel Havi- 
land, Samuel K. Satterlee, Francis Emmons, James Stebbins, Adam T. 
Sackett, James D. Halsted, Newberry D. Halsted, Augustus Wiggin. Clerk : 
Augustus Wiggin. 

1859. Wardens: John C.Jay, Benjamin Loder. Vestrymen: Samuel Havi- 
land, James D. Halsted, Newberry D. Halsted, James Stebbins, Adam T. Sackett, 
Samuel K. Satterlee, Augustus Wiggin, James H. Titus (declined). Clerk: Au- 
gustus Wiggin. 

i860. Wardens : John C. Jay, Benjamin Loder. Vestrymen : Samuel Havi- 
land, James Stebbins, James D. Halsted, Newberry D. Halsted, Samuel K. 
Satterlee, Adam T. Sackett, Augustus Wiggin, George L. Cornell. Clerk : 
Augustus Wiggin. 

186 1. No election. Same vestry held over. 

1862. Wardeits : John C.Jay, Benjamin Loder, Vestryi?ien: Samuel Havi- 
land, James D. Halsted, Samuel K. Satterlee, Adam T. Sackett, Augustus Wig- 
gin, George L. Cornell, Benjamin S. Olmstead, John J. Drake. Clerk: Augustus 
Wiggin. 

1863. ^ara'ifMJ ; John C. Jay, Benjamin Loder. Vestrymen: Samuel Havi- 
land, James D. Halsted, Samuel K. Satterlee, Adam T. Sackett, Augustus Wig- 
gin, George L. Cornell, Benjamin S. Olmstead, John J. Drake. Clerk : Augustus 
Wiggin. 

1864. Wardens: John C. Jay, Benjamin Loder. Vestrymen: James D. 
Halsted, Samuel K. Satterlee, Adam T. Sackett, Augustus Wiggin, George L. 
Cornell, Benjamin S. Olmstead, John J. Drake, Edward D. Webb. Clerks: 
Augustus Wiggin, Benjamin S. Olmstead. 

1865. Wardens: John C.Jay, Benjamin Loder. Vestrymen: Samuel K. 
Satterlee, Adam T. Sackett, Augustus Wiggin, George L. Cornell, Benjamin S. 
Olmstead, Edward D. Webb, William B. Halsted, Robert S. Hayward. Clerk: 
Benjamin S. Olmstead. 

1866. Same as 1865. Clerk: Benjamin S. Olmstead. 

1867. Wardens : Benjamin Loder, Samuel Haviland. Vestrymen: Samuel 
K. Satterlee, George L. Cornell, Augustus Wiggin, Benjamin S. Olmstead, 



11 

Edward D. Webb, William B. Halsted, Robert S. Hayward, Richard B. Chap- 
man. Clerk : Benjamin S. Olmstead. 

iS68. Wardetzs : Samuel Haviland, Augustus Wiggin. Vestrymen: Samuel 
K. Satterlee, Richard B. Chapman, Benjamin S. Olmstead, Robert S. Hayward, 
George L. Cornell, Edward D. Webb, William B. Halsted, Howard C. Cady. 
Clerk : Benjamin S. Olmstead. 

1869. lVarde7is : John C.Jay, Samuel Haviland. Vestrymen: Samuel K. 
Satterlee, Augustus Wiggin, George L. Cornell, Benjamin S. Olmstead, Edward 
D. Webb, Robert S. Hayward, Richard B. Chapman, Howard C. Cady. Clerk : 
Edward D. Webb. 

1870. Same as 1869. Clerk : Edward D. Webb. 

1871. Wardens : John C. Jay, Samuel Haviland. Vestrymen : Samuel K. 
Satterlee, Augustus Wiggin, George L, Cornell, Benjamin S. Olmstead, Edward 
D. Webb, Robert S. Hayward, Richard B. Chapman, Thomas B. Peck. Clerk: 
Edward D. Webb. 

1872. Wardens: John C. Jay, Samuel Haviland. Vestrymen: Samuel K. 
Satterlee, George L. Cornell, Richard B. Chapman, Augustus Wiggin, Edward 
D. Webb, Robert S. Hayward, Thomas B. Peck, Gerrit H. Van Wagenen. 
Clerk : Edward D. Webb. 

1873. M^ardens : John C.Jay, Samuel Haviland. Vestrymen: Samuel K. 
Satterlee, Augustus Wiggin, George L. Cornell, Robert S. Hayward, Thomas B. 
Peck, Gerrit H. Van Wagenan, Edward D. Webb (declined), Abner Mills. Clerk : 
Gerrit H, Van Wagenen. 

1874. JVardens : John C. Jay, Samuel Haviland. J^estryinen : Samuel K. 
Satterlee, George L. Cornell, Augustus Wiggin, Thomas B. Peck, Gerrit H. Van 
Wagenen, Abner Mills, Robert S. Hayward, John Brooks. Clerk : Gerrit H. 
Van Wagenen. 

1875. Wardens : John C. Jay, Samuel Haviland. Vestrymen : Samuel K. 
Satterlee, Richard B. Chapman, Augustus Wiggin, Thomas B. Peck, Abner Mills, 
Gerrit H. Van Wagenen, Robert S. Hayward, John Brooks. Clerk : Gerrit H. 
Van Wagenen, 

1876. Same as 1875. Clerk : Gerrit H. Van Wagenen. 

1877. Wardens: John C. Jay, Samuel Haviland, Vestrymen : SamnQlK. 
Satterlee, Augustus Wiggin, Robert S. Hayward, Gerrit H.Van Wagenen, Thomas 
B, Peck, John Brooks, Abner Mills, Richard B. Chapman. Clerk: Gerrit H. Van 
Wagenen. 

1878. fF'^ro'd'wj- .• John C. Jay, Augustus Wiggin. Vestrymen: Samuel K. 
Satterlee, Gerrit H. Van Wagenen, Robert S. Hayward, Thomas B. Peck, John 
Brooks, Richard B. Chapman, George F. Cornell, Henry Tatlock, Clei'k : Gerrit 
H. Van Wagenen. 



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1 879- Wardens : John C. Jay, Augustus Wiggin. Vestrymen : Samuel K. 
Satterlee, Thomas B. Peck, Gerrit H. Van Wagenen, John Brooks, Henry Tat- 
lock, Edward Schell, Clarence Sackett, John B. Peck. Clerk: Gerrit H. Van 
Wagenen. 

1880 and 1881. Same as 1879. Same clerk. 

1882. Wardens: Augustus Wiggin, Edward Schell. Vestrymen : Samuel K. 
Satterlee, Thomas B. Peck, Gerrit H. Van Wagenen, John Brooks, Henry Tat- 
lock, Clarence Sackett, John B. Peck, William E. Ver Planck. Clerk : Gerrit H. 
Van Wagenen. 

1883. Wardens: Edward Schell, Henry Tatlock. Vestrymen: Gerrit H. 
Van Wagenen, Clarence Sackett, William E. Ver Planck, John D. Minuse, Le 
Grand N. Denslow, Thomas T. Sherman, Charles B. Curtis. Clerk : Gerrit H. 
Van Wagenen. 

1884. Wardens : Augustus Wiggin, Edward Schell. Vestrymen : Samuel 
K. Satterlee, Gerrit H. Van Wagenen, Henry Tatlock, Clarence Sackett, William 
E. Ver Planck, John D. Minuse, Le Grand N. Denslow, Thomas T. Sherman. 
Clerk : Gerrit H. Van Wagenen. 

1885. Wardens: Augustus Wiggin, Edward Schell. Vestry?iien: Samuel 
K. Satterlee, Gerrit H. Van Wagenen, Clarence Sackett, William E. Ver Planck, 
John D. Minuse, Thomas T. Sherman, William C. Miller, William H. Catlin 
Clerk: Gerrit H. Van Wagenen. 

1886. Wardens : Augustus Wiggin, Edward Schell. Vestrymen : Samuel 
K. Satterlee, Gerrit H. Van Wagenen, Clarence Sackett, John D. Minuse, 
Thomas T. Sherman, William C. Miller, Joseph Park, James M. Ives. Clerk: 
Gerrit H. Van Wagenen. 

1887. Same as 1886. Same clerk. 

1888. Wardens: Augustus Wiggin, Edward Schell. Vestrymen: Samuel 
K. Satterlee, Gerrit H. Van Wagenen, Clarence Sackett, Thomas T. Sherman, 
Joseph Park, James M. Ives, Charles Eldredge, Walter M.Jackson. Clerk: Gerrit 
II. Van Wagenen. 

1889. Same as 1888. Same clerk. 

1890. JVardens : Augustus Wiggin, Edward Schell. Vestrymen : Samuel 
K. Satterlee, Gerrit H. Van Wagenen, Clarence Sackett, Thomas T. Sherman, 
Joseph Park, James M. Ives, Charles Eldredge, George R. Read. Clerk : Gerrit 
H. Van Wagenen. 

1891. Wardens: Augustus Wiggin, Edward Schell. Vestrymen : Samuel 
K. Satterlee, Gerrit H. Van Wagenen, Clarence Sackett, Thomas T. .Sherman, 
Joseph Park, James M. Ives, George R. Read, James W. Quintard. Clerk : Ger- 
rit H. Van Wagenen. 

i8q2. Same as i8qi. Same clerk. 



Y9 

1893- Wardens : Augustus Wiggin, Edward Schell. Vestrymen : Samuel 
K. Satterlee, Clarence Sackett, Thomas T. Sherman, Joseph Park, James M. Ives, 
George R. Read, James W. Quintard, Junius S. Morgan. Clerk: Thomas T. 
Sherman. 

1894. Wardens: Augustus Wiggin, Samuel K. Satterlee. Vestrymen: 
Clarence Sackett, Thomas T. Sherman, Joseph Park, James M. Ives, George R. 
Read, James W. Quintard, Junius S. Morgan, Edward H. Schell. Clerk: 
Thomas T. Sherman. 

1895. Wardens: Augustus Wiggin, Samuel K. Satterlee. Vestrymen: 
Clarence Sackett, Thomas T. Sherman, Joseph Park, George R. Read, James W. 
Quintard, Junius S. Morgan, Edward H. Schell, John H. Pool. Clerk: Thomas 
T. Sherman. 



irnbei of Marbens, 



Bloomer, Gilbert, 1765, 1766. 
Brondige, John, 1695; 1713, 1714. 
Brown, Benjamin, 1723; 1726; 1736. 

" David, 1823-1834. 

" Hachaliah, 1739, 1740; 1767; 1825-1833; 1835-1845. 

" Jonathan, i 753-1 761. 
Budd, Elisha, 1 747-1 749; 1762. 
" John, 1727; 1732. 
" Joseph, 17 12. 
Bulkley, Josiah, 1835-1840; 1845-1851. 
Bush, William, 1843-185 1. 

Denham, Isaac, 17 12; 1720. 
Disbrow, Henry, 171 7, 17 18. 
Dix, JohnA., 1852-1854. 
Doughty, Francis, 1735; ^737> 1738- 

Fowler, Henry, 1722; 1724. 
" Jeremiah, 1750, 1751. 
" William, 1728. 

Glover, John, 1730, 1731. 
Griffen, Benjamin, 1770-1775. 
Guion, John, 1803-1823. 

Haight, John, 1720; 1 800-1 807. 

" Jonathan, 1721; 1725. 
Hart, Jonathan, 1 7 1 1 . 
Haviland, Jacob, 1716, 1717; 1725. 

" Samuel, 1867-1877. 
Heathcote, Caleb, 1703, 1704. 
Horton, James, 1750. 

" James, Jr., 1769; 1776. 

" John, 1724. 

Jay, John C, 1852-1866; 1869-1881. 
" Peter, 1788-1797. 
" Peter A., 1841, 1842, 

Knapp, Moses, 1715, 1716. 
Kniffen, Joseph, 1733. 

" Ebenezer, 1 762-1 764, 



81 



Lane, George, 1695; 17 18, 17 19; 1723. 
Loder, Benjamin, 1855 -1867. 
Lyon, Andrew, 1801, 1802. 

Merritt, Andrew, 1739, 1740; 1763. 
Miller, Abraham, 1728. 
" Jonathan, 1713. 

Ogden, David, 1714, 1715; 1729. 

Park, Roger, Jr., 1752. 

Purdy, Daniel, 1727; 1729-1731; 1733-1736; 1741-1744. 

" Hachaliah, 1768. 

" Isaac, 1 788-1 800. 

" Jonathan, 1 808-1 824. 

" Joshua, 1752; 1765, 1766; 1769-1776; 179S, 1799. 

" Samuel, 1721, 1722; 1726; 1737, 1738; 1745, 1846. 

Satterlee, Samuel K., 1894, 1895. Now Warden. 
Schell, Edward, 1882-1893. 
Seeley, Cornelius, 171 1. 
Sherwood, Joseph, 1751. 

Tatlock, Henry, 18S3. 
Theall, Charles, 1 747-1 749. 

" Ebenezer, 1719. 

" Joseph, 1703, 1704; 1711. 
Thomas, John, 1741-1744; 1764. 
Tredwell, Samuel, 1745, 1746. 

Wetmore, Timothy, 1767, 1768. 

VViggin, Augustus, 1878-1882; 1884-1895. Now Warden. 

Willett, William, 1734; 1753-1761. 

Woods, James, 1732. 

Unbex of De6tr^men. 



Anderson, Isaac, 1730. 

Angevine, Lewis, 1741; 175 1; 1755; ^759; 1762. 

Armour, Sacuuel, 1803-1807. 

Baker, Jonathan, 1739. 
Bayley, G. C, 1819-1821. 
Barker, Daniel, 1746; 1749. 

" Henry M., 1847-1849. 

" James, 1800. 



82 

Barker, John, 1775; 1794, 1795. 

" Thomas, 1751; 1757, 1758; 1760. 
" William, 1735; 1743; 1746; 1774. 
Barnes, Joshua, 1730. 
Barton, Joseph, 1728. 
Baxter, Stephen, 1776. 
Bent, Belden, 1822, 1823. 
Bloomer, Gilbert, 1741, 1742; 1746; 1753-1755; 1770-1776. 

John, 1716; 1723; 1727; 1730; 1736; 1738; 1744; 1748. 
" Robert, 1712; 1716; 1719; 1722; 1724; 1765; 1768. 

Brooks, David, 1832, 1833; 1835-1840. 

" John, 1843-1849; 1874-1882, 
Brown, Benjamin, 1722; 1727, 1728. 

" David, 1766; 1768-1770; 1772; 1803-1809. 
'• Deliverance, 1695; 1703. 
" " Jr., 1714. 

Gilbert, 1808-1818. 

Hachaliah, 1695; 1703; 1732; 1734; 1756; I743-I745; 1747-175°; 1752; 
1754-1758; t8io; 1819. 
" Jonathan, 1727; 1731; 1736-1738; 1740; 175 i. 
" " Jr., 1762-1764. 

" Josiah, 1 77 1. 
" Peter, 1721. 
" Samuel, 1722, 1723; 1764. 
" Thomas, 1788-1791; 1796, 1797. 
Brundige, Daniel, 1725. 

" John, 1712; 1719; 1726. 
" Joseph, 1740. 
Budd, Elisha, 1735; ^738; 1746; 1756; 1758-1760; 1764. 
" Gilbert, 1770; 1771; 1774. 
" James, 1769. 
" John, 1724; 1736-1738. 
" Underhill, 1739; I74i' 
Bulkley, Gershom, 1811-1818. 

" Josiah, 1832-1834; 1841-1845. 
" William, 1820-1823; 1834. 
Bush, Abraham, 1749. 

" William, 1818-1828; 1832-1842. 
Butson, Thomas, 1747. 



Cady, Howard €., 1868-1870. 
Camfield, Jedediah, 1740. 
Carhartt, John, 1746. 
Carpenter, Benjamin, 1740. 

" Joseph, 1724. 

" Nathaniel, 1758. 

" Silas, 1726. 



83 



Carpenter, Zeno, 1774-1776. 

Catlin, William H., 1885. 

Chapman, Richard B., 1867-1872; 1875-1878. 

Clark, Andrew, 1828. 

" Howell, 1834-1836. 
Clauson, Stephen, 1714. 
Cleator, Joseph, 17 12, 
Close, George C, 1846-1848. 
Coe, Andrew, 171 1; 1713. 
Conkling, Nicholas, 1713; 1717. 
Cornell, George F., 1878. 

" George L., 1860-1874, 

" Jacob, 17 16. 
Covert, Isaac, 1722; 1724; 1727. 
Crane, Zebulon, 1758; 1759; ^7^S- 
Cromwell, Charles T., 1852-1855. 
Curtis, Charles B., 1883. 

Daton, David, 1769. 
Dean, Samuel, 1 731. 

Denham, Isaac, 1695; 1703; 1714; 1715; 1717- 
Dennis, George, 1728; 1738; 1742. 
Denslow, Le Grand N., 1883, 1884. 
Disbrow, John (of Mamaroneck), 1711, 1712. 
" (of Rye), 1714, 1715. 

" " 1718, 1719. 

" Thomas, 1703. 
Doughty, Francis, 1 731-1734. 
Drake, Gerardus, 1732, 1733; 1737. 

«' John J., 1862-1864. 
Dusenbery, Henry, 1794; 1 798-1 800. 

" William, 1741; 1751. 

Dusenburoh, John, 1770; 1773. 

Eldredge, Charles, 1888-1890. 
Emmons, Francis, 1852-1858. 

Falconer, John, 1789, 1790. 
Ferris, John, 1763. 
Flewelling, Thomas, 1727. 
Foreman, Aaron, 1743; 1756,1757; 1762. 
" Jr., 1751- 
" John, 1756; 1767. 
Founten, Mathew, 1774. 
Fowler, Amnon, 1774. 

" Caleb, 1742; 1760, 1761; 1767. 

" Henry, 1719-1721; 1726; 1745. 

" Jeremiah, 1725; 1734; 1748. 

" Joseph, 1737; 1744; 1760, 1761. 



84' 

Fowler, Josiah, 1768. 
" Moses, 1788. 

Thomas, 1729, 1730; 1733-1735. 

William, 1717; 1721; 1724,1725; 1730-1732; 1735; I736; 1738; I740. 
Frost, John, 1712; 1716. 
Furman, Jacob, 1734. 

Gedney, Eleazer, 1718; 1727. 

" Elijah, 1767. 

Isaac, 1743; 1756; 1773. 

" James, 1729. 

John, 1724; 1726; 1732; 1734; 1737, 1738; 1745; 1750; 1754; 1757. 
Glover, John, 1740. 

" John H., Jr., 1852, 1853. 
Golden, Thomas, 1745. 
Golding, Ephraim, 1729. 
Graham, Robert, 1763. 
Green, Joseph, 1718; 1745. 

Griffen, Benjamin, 1724; 1742; 1747; 1750; 1759; 1761; 1763; 1767. 
Jonathan, 1739; 1753; 1756; 1758. 

" William, 1760, 1761; 1764, 1765; 1768-1770; 1772, 1773; 1776. 
Guion, Abraham, 1818-1828. 

" James, 1824. 

" John, 1750; 1764; 1769; 1796-1802. 

" Peter, 1826. 

Hadden, Job, 1749; 1753-1755; 1757-1761; 1763, 1764; 1766; 1770-1773. 

" Thomas, 1740. 
Haight, Charles, 1748; 1770. 
" David, Jr., 1751. 

" John, 1714; 1722; 1775; 1776; 1789-1799. 
" Jonathan, 1712; 1715; 1717-1719; 1726; 1752. 
Joseph, 1745; 1747. 
Samuel, 1733; 1749. 
" Thomas, 1790. 
Hains, Joseph, 1749. 
Halsted, Ezekiei, 1767. 

" James D., 1832, 1833; 1835-1845; 1849, 1850; 1856-1862. 
" Newberry D., 1842- 1864. 
" Thomas, 1812-1817. 

William B., 1865-1868. 
Hanse, Godfred, 1736; 1742. 
Hart, James, 1766. 
" Jonathan, 1695. 

" Monmouth, 1725; 1739; 1771, 1772. 
Hatfield, Abraham, 1757. 
" Gilbert, 1 796-1 798. 
" Isaac, 1748. 



85 



Hatfield, Joseph, 1795. 
Haviland, Joseph, 1767. 

" Samuel, 1767; 1775; 1834-1863. 
" Thomas, 1756. 
Hayns, James, 1768. 
Hay ward, Robert S., 1865-1878. 
Hill, Andrew, 1766. 

" Anthony, 1742. 
Holmes, Elijah, 171. 

" James, 1762; 1765; 1769. 
" John, 1734, 1735. 

" Jr., 1754, 1755. 
" Joseph, 1766. 
" Reuben, 1748. 
" Richard, 1742. 
" Stephen, 1770; 1772. 
Hopkins, Thomas, 1748. 

Horton, Caleb, 1743; 1752; 1754; 1 797-1 799. 
" Daniel, 1728. 
" Gilbert, 1776. 
" Gill Budd, 1775. 
" James, 1743; 1751, 1752; 1756. 

" Jr., 1765. 
" Jonathan, 1794, 1795. 

" John, 1715; 1722; 1725; 1727; 1729-1731; 1735. 
" Joseph, 1695; 1703; 1718; 1720. 
Hoyt, Stephen, 1792. 
Hunt, James, 1744; 1749; 1752. 
" Jesse, 1788, 1789; 1792. 
" Joshua, 1776. 
" Samuel, 1713; 1748. 
Hunter, Elijah, 1771; 1774. 
Hyatt, Caleb, 1716, 1717; 1719. 
" Jr., 1741. 
" Elisha, 1753. 

Isinghart (or Izenhart), Christopher, 1747; 1765. 
Ives, James M., 1886-1894. 

Jackson, Walter M., 1888, 1889. 
Jarvis, Jesse, 1818, 1819. 
Jay, John C, 1846, 1847. 
" Peter, 1747; 1763. 

Kelley, Samuel W., 1841-1845. 
Knapp, Benjamin, 1740. 

" Moses, 1719. 

" Timothy, 1695; 1718; 1723. 



Kniffen, Ebenezer, 1721, 1722; 1742. 
" George, 171 i; 1723. 

Joseph, 1723; 1737; 1741. 
" Nathan, 1 7 13; 1749; 1759. 
Lane, Daniel, 1714; 1718. 
" David, 1746; 1749, 1750. 
" George, 1703; 1718; 1720; 1734. 

Jr., 1711; 1713. 
" Samuel, 1703; 1715-1718; 1720; 1724. 
" Jr., 1728, 1729; 1743. 
Lawrence, John, 1773. 
Lounsbery, Nehemiah, 1766. 

" William, 1752; 1776. 

Lyon, Andrew, 1788, 

" Israel, 1769; 1775, 1776. 

" John, 1732; 1739. 

" Jonathan, 1752. 

" Joseph, 1711; 1719; 1721; 1723; 1737. 

" Roger, 1762. 

" Samuel, 1741. 

Marvin, Lewis, 1762. 

" Samuel, 1791-1793; 1800-1807. 
McCoUum, Thomas, 1811-1817; 1820. 
McDonald, Lewis, 1743; 1749. 

" Jr., 1773- 
McKay, John S,, 1850, 185 1. 

Merritt, Andrew, 1728; 1754; 1756; 1758; 1760, 1761. 
" David, 1744. 
" Edward, 1755; 1772. 
" Gilbert, 1763. 
" John, 1711; 1739. 
" Joseph, 1730, 1 73 1. 
" Stephen, 1744. 
" Thomas, 1695; 1712; 1716. 

" Jr., 1711; 1714; 1715. 
" " son of Joseph, 1748. 

Miller, Abraham, 1720, 1721; 1733; 1745; 1760; 1761; 1763, 1764, 
" Anthony, 1726. 

Jr., 1768. 
" Ebenezer, 1757. 

" Elijah, 1765, 1766; 1768; 1771; 1773. 
" Isaac, 1753. 
" James, 1772. 

" John, 1711, 1712; 1718; 1744; 1746; 1750. 
" " (son of John), 1738. 

" Jonathan, 1715; 1720-1722. 
" Justice, 1768. 



87 

Miller, William C, 1885-1887. 
Mills, Abner, 1873-1877. 

" Zachariah, 1718. 

" Zebediah, 1763; 1767. 
Minuse, John D., 1883-1887. 
Moore, Alexander, 1745. 

" Michael, 1825-1827. 
Morgan, Junius S., 1893-1895. Now Vestryman. 
Mott, Justice, 1703. 

Nellson, Poly carpus, 17 17; 1722; 1725. 
Nichols, Walter, 1791-1793. 

Ogden, David, 1712; 1719; 1722. 
" Jonathan, 1735, 1736. 
" Joseph, 1 741. 

Richard, 1 71 5; 1721; 1725. 
" William, 1747. 
Olmstead, Benjamin S,, 1862-1871. 
Osborn,John, 1824-1827. 

" H., 1828; 1832-1841. 
Owen, Joseph, 1776. 

Pallmer, Elisha, 1754. 

" John, 1764, 
Palmer, Nehemiah, 17 13. 

" Sylvanus, 1714, 1715. 
Park, Joseph, 1800-1802; 1808-1810. 

" " 1886-1895. Now Vestryman. 

" Roger, 1725; 1729; 1733; 1735; 1737; 1738; 1742; 1798. 1799; 1807- 
181 I ; 1823-1S28. 
" Jr., 1744; 1753; 1759; 1765. 
Peck, John B., 1879-1882. 
" Read, 1834; 1845-1851. 
•' Thomas B., 1871-1882. 
Pellam, Francis, 1725; 1732, 1733. 
Penfield, Henry, 1814. 

Henry L, 1 823-1 828. 
" Nathaniel, 1801-1806; 1808. 
Pool, John H., 1895. Now Vestryman. 
Provoost, Samuel A., 1834. 

William T., 1809-1813; 1815-1822. 
Purdy, Daniel, 1713; 1715; 1717; 1721-1723; '726; 1728; 1732; 1738; 174°; 
1745, 1746; 1757. 
" Elias, 1808-1820. 

" Jr., 1821. 
" Elijah, 1770; 1773; 1788-1792. 
•' Francis, 1739; 1750. 



88 

Purdy, Gabriel, 1822. 
" Hachaliah, 1762. 
" Isaac, 1775; I 822 -I 825. 
" Jesse, 1828; 1832-185 1. 
" Jonathan, 1724; 1729; 1731, 1732; 1736, 1737; 1747; 1751; 1761; 1774, 

1793, 1794; 1818; 1821. 
" " Jr., 1755; 1766, 1767; 1791; 1796-1802. 

" Joseph, 1695; 1703; 1723. 

" Joshua, 1753; 1758; 1767; 1788-1797; 1800-1807. 
" Joshua, Jr., I793-I795; 179^. i799- 
" Josiah, 1756; 1827. 
" Nathaniel, 1796. 
" Nehemiah, 1806- 1807; 1823. 
" " Jr., 1819-1822. 

" Roger, 1750; 1 803-1 81 1. 
" Samuel, 1715: 1720; 1723; 1739; 1762; 1765; 1772; 1789-1791; 1824- 

1828; 1832, 1833. 
" Solomon, 1748; 1769. 
" Still John, 1753, 1754. 

" Jr., 1755- 
" Thomas, 1703; 1713; 1815-1818. 
" William, 1792, 1793; 1850, 1851. 

Quintard, James W., 1891-1895. Now Vestryman. 

Ray, John, 1742. 

Read, George R., 1890-1895. Now Vestryman. 

Ricketts, George R. A., 1853-185 7. 

Roads, John, 1736. 

Rogers, David, 1801-1805. 

" Jr., 1806-1817. 

Sackett, Adam T., 1856-1866. 

" Clarence, 1879-1895. Now Vestryman. 
Satterlee, Samuel K., 1854-1882; 1884-1893. 
Schell, Edward, 1 879- 1 881. 

" Edward H., 1894, 1895. Now Vestryman. 
Seaman, Hicks, 1750. 
Secor, Joshua, 1788; 1795. 

Seely, Joseph, 1723-1725; 1727-1733; 1736, i737- 
Shaw, Michael, 1728, 1729. 

" Samuel, 1730, 
Sherman, Thomas T., 1883-1895. Now Vestryman. 
Sherwood, Joseph, 1726; 1729. 

" Jr., 1743; ^750- 
" Nathaniel, 17 14. 
Sloakham, John, 17 13. 
Smith, Daniel, 1741; 1775. 
" Gabriel, 1747. 



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Smith, William, 1832, 1833; 1835-1841. 

Sniffen, Isaac, i799- 

South erland, William, 1746. 

Stebbins, James, 1837-1846; 1848-1861. 

Stevenson, Edward, 1735. 

" James, 1764. 
Straing, Henry, 1735. 
Strang, Joseph, 1812-1814. 
Stuyvesant, Nicholas W., 1852. 
Sutton, John, 1747. 

" Joseph, 1734; 1740; 1753. 

" William, 1762; 1766; 1768, 1769. 

Talbot, WiUiam R., 1851-1855. 
Tatlock, Henry, 1878-1882; 1884. 
Theall, Charles, 1733. 

Jr., 1744. 

" Ebenezer, 1714, 1715; 1721; 1723. 

" Hachaliah, 1759. 

" Joseph, 1703. 
Thomas, John, 1745; 1750; I753-I755; i757; i759-i76i; 1763- 

" " Jr., 1757; 1760, 1761; 1766; 1773. 

" Thomas, 1769; 1771; 1788; 1796, 1797. 
Thome, Benjamin, 1751. 
Tompkins, Jonathan Griffen, 1771. 
Tredwell, Samuel, 1728; 1734; 1743, 1744; 1770. 

" Thomas Star, 1752. 
Tyler, Jonathan, 1752. 

Underbill, Humphrey, 17 17. 

Van Wagenen, Gerrit H., 1872-1892. 
Ver Planck, William E., 1882-1885. 

Webb, Edward D., 1 863-1 873. 
Westcoate, John, 17 13. 

" Richard, 1715; 1717. 
Wetmore, Ezrahiah, 1790; 1793-17 95- 

" Johial, 1789. 

" Timothy, 1765; 1774. 
White, William, 1730, 1731; 1733. 
Wiggm, Augustus, 1858-1867; 1869-1877. 
Willett, William, 1726, 1727; 1831, 1832; 1846; 1851. 
Willson, Samuel, 1755. 
Woolsey, John, 1739; 1768; 1774. 

" Richard, 1726. 
Wright, James, 1772; 1775. 
" Jotham, 1759; 1762. 
" Reuben, 1764. 



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Brown, Isaac, 1785, 1786. 

Brundige, Gilbert, 1786. 

Budd, Gilbert, 1785, 1786, 1787. 

Falconer, John, 1785. 

Haight, Thomas, 1787. 

Miller, WiUiam, 1785, 1786, 1787. 

Purdy, Elijah, 1786, 1787. 

" Joshua, 1785; 1787. 
Thomas, John, 1785, 1786. 
Wetmore, Ezrahiah, 1787. 



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